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InnovateEDU @innovateedunyc.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The impact of SFFA v. Harvard goes beyond Boston. Join us Mar 3 at 3:30 pm ET for a deep dive into the "cascade effect" on admissions. We'll analyze key trends & shifts in enrollment with James Murphy from Class Action. Register: tinyurl.com/49pb3hmp #EducationPolicy #DataPrivacy #HigherEd

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This !@#$% year in review: the wrecking ball that was February 2025 brought the abrupt end to many Institute of Education Sciences contracts for data collection, evaluation and research. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut... 🧵

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Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient | Brookings

Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Lots of discussion about whether shifting education programs from US Dept of Education to other federal agencies is a good idea (narrator: it isn't). Our EducationCounsel team & Sligo Law Group looked at whether it's even legal to do so. TL;DR: It likely isn't. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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DEEP DIVE: Beyond “The Maximum Extent Permitted By Law”

Beyond “The Maximum Extent Permitted By Law” Legal Analysis of the U.S. Department of Education’s Transfers of Programs to Other Federal Agencies December 4, 2025 President Trump issued an executiv...

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Lots of discussion about whether shifting education programs from US Department of Education to other federal agencies is a good idea (narrator: it isn't). Our team and Sligo Law Group looked at whether it's even legal to do so. TL;DR: It likely isn't. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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DEEP DIVE: Beyond “The Maximum Extent Permitted By Law”

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

*This* is the thing to watch with respect to the higher ed "Compact." The coverage has mostly been that it's a series of carrots when it seems more likely to be used as the biggest of all sticks. Check out the whole @jamessmurphy.bsky.social 🧵

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Among (too) many things this evening, this one is sitting heavily on me: "Common threads animating this violent conduct include...extremism on migration, race, and gender" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

BREAKING: Trump-appointed judge *dismisses* DOJ lawsuit against Maryland judges over their decision to automatically pause deportation cases for 48 hours He also calls Trump and his admin's attack on judges a "smear" that is "unprecedented and unfortunate storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Washington DC’s 700,000+ residents deserve federal representation. DC statehood now.

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Just to be clear, if you cancel every special education grant that mentions "inclusion," you will cancel NEARLY EVERY SPECIAL EDUCATION GRANT. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

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Fears Grow That Trump Will Cut Special Education Support Funding

Advocacy organizations are warning members to brace for "hundreds" of grant terminations.

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Great news - judge issued a final ruling in case brought by AFT (via Democracy Forward) completely vacating OCR's "Dear Colleague" letter & anti-DEI certification. These policy moves were forerunners for recent DOJ recent guidance - see 🧵 below for more on that www.courtlistener.com/docket/69672...

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Federal IDEA grants affecting special education research and parent support are likely to be cut in the coming weeks, advocates say: www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

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Fears Grow That Trump Will Cut Special Education Support Funding

Advocacy organizations are warning members to brace for "hundreds" of grant terminations.

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🧵 We just published "Misguidance," a deep analysis of the recent Dept of Justice (DOJ) guidance on how the Administration is applying antidiscrimination laws to efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion: drive.google.com/file/d/1q3H6... #EduSky #CivilRights #highered

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EducationCounsel - MISGUIDANCE - 8.12.25.pdf

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EducationCounsel - MISGUIDANCE - 8.12.25.pdf

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Gbenga Ajilore @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

While everyone is (rightly) focused on National Guard being deployed in D.C. - even though crime is down - we can't forget that the House took $1B of revenue from D.C. in the CR. The Senate did pass a fix back in March but the House has yet to vote on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

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DC prepares for $1 billion budget cut after House passes bill

The House passed a bill Tuesday that would avert a government shutdown but D.C. leaders say it will have devastating effects. Here's what would happen.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The 2024 violent crime rates per 100,000 people in Washington, DC (926) and Indianapolis Indiana (878) are very similar. In 2024, you were more likely to experience violent crime in Elkhart, Indiana (995) than DC

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

👀 (silver lining…may get in the way of them declaring illegal even the collection of disaggregated data)

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Grateful for this piece by Cory Turner in @npr.org. These public servants did vital work. Imagine doing your job well and then hearing your boss's boss calling your layoff "a significant step toward restoring the greatness of the United States education system." www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n... #edusky

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Today is the last day for many Education Department workers. Here's what they did

Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone.

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Thank you to all the dedicated US Dept of Ed civil servants terminated today as part of the RIF and to all those still employed but now doing extra work to serve schools without sufficient staffing.

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CALDER Center @caldercenter.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

CALDER partnered with @bellwetherorg.bsky.social on a new series looking at how pandemic-era research can help education leaders navigate today’s K–12 policy challenges. Check out the first report here: bellwether.org/publications... @cedr.bsky.social

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The Pandemic Learning Project: Using Research on COVID-Era Policy Change to Strengthen K-12 Education | Bellwether

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

From a Harvard psychology professor - to his great credit

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

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Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If we accept the claim that the education funds were withheld only so long as it took to complete a review…KUDOS to public education for apparently administering $7B without a single instance of waste/fraud/abuse/radical-agenda/Administration-conflicts! When’s last time a $7B audit came up 💯 empty?

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Good illustration of how much viewpoint discrimination is at the heart of the recent “Woke AI” EO. The LLM described below would likely be eligible for procurement by federal agencies while one that admits systemic racism or trans people merely exist would not.

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Some resources to support evidence-informed use of those newly released Title 1-c and Title III-a dollars: edresearchforaction.org/research-bri... edresearchforaction.org/research-bri... #EdResearch #Multilingual #ESL #ESOL #ELL

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Promoting School Success for Immigrant-Origin Students - EdResearch for Action

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Sunday marked 6 months since Inauguration. Now that we're (gulp) 1/8th through the term, we listed the key executive actions affecting education (with a few legislative & judicial ones too). Hope it's a useful resource for finding some signals amid all the noise. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

New: Ten Republican senators wrote to the Trump admin. today urging the restoration of $6.8 billion for education Trump impounded earlier this month. Cutting federal education funding with no notice runs counter to "returning education to the states," senators say. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Republicans Urge Trump to Release $6.8 Billion in School Funding He's Held Back

The funds that were supposed to go out July 1 pay for teacher training, English learner services, after-school programs, and more.

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

In the context of the Administration refusing to spend $7B in congressionally-appropriated education funds, it's odd that the rescissions discourse just assumes the USAID/CPB funding will be spent if the deadline passes without Congress agreeing to rescind. Is there a difference I'm missing here?

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I hope the many reporters digging into the school voucher issue for the first time know to consult AEFP's live handbook that summarizes the research on lots of subjects in education, including vouchers! livehandbook.org/k-12-educati...

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Vouchers/ESAs

Explore private school choice programs: vouchers, ESAs, & tax-credit scholarships. Discover participant effects, system-wide impacts, & stratification.

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Bill DeBaun @billdebaun.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

It's good to have good news, and the class of 2025's FAFSAs are delivering it! Through June 27, the class of 2025 completed 17.5% more FAFSAs year-over-year. That's an additional 334,000 completions! Good for a ~54% completion rate! www.ncan.org/news/705304/...

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 07/07/2025

"government efficiency"//Another Education Department delay: Release of NAEP science scores hechingerreport.org/proof-points... "There is no commissioner of education statistics to sign off on the score report, a requirement before it is released"

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Another Education Department delay: release of NAEP science scores

But administration relents on yanking data from researchers

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The biggest impact of this legislation on higher ed is going to come from the budget hits states are going to take. There's a lot in a state budget that can't be cut. Higher ed can be. That's likely to make higher education more expensive for millions of people. www.chronicle.com/article/what...

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What Republicans’ Sprawling Policy Bill Means for Higher Ed

Trump’s signature legislation now heads to his desk after passing the House. It hikes some endowment taxes, remakes student aid, and introduces a new accountability standard for colleges.

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Really important to see coverage of the fact that SNAP and Medicaid enrollment translates into free school meals for many kids. It's also important for states' funding formula counts of low-income students who need extra resources; these fed cuts could threaten state aid to schools as well. #edusky

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Proposed cuts to Medicaid, SNAP threaten K-12 meals - Bowling Green Daily News

DAVID MAMARIL HOROWITZ david.horowitz@bgdailynews.com Proposed federal cuts to safety net programs would reduce federal funding for meals that school districts serve kids nationwide, according to poli...

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

More here: bsky.app/profile/kris...

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The bill’s school choice tax credit has NO CAP on the overall $ that can shift from federal taxes to private school vouchers. There’s a $1700 cap for each taxpayer. But no cap on # of ppl or overall $. Depending on uptake, we could spend more fed’l $ on privates than low-income public schools.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The bill "provides its most generous tax breaks early on and reserves some of its most painful benefit cuts until after the 2026 midterm elections"

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Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill

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Dan Gordon @dangordondc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Good thread on the post-Mahmoud realities for school districts (here MCPS but really all of them):

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