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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 4h

Your numbers here are incorrect. bsky.app/profile/danu...

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Almost certainly not. bsky.app/profile/danu...

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No one is instructing principals to commit fraud for rounding errors. The District might be tightening screws. And it might be tightening them too hard. But principals are not experts on how state funding works, and so we should be careful about ascribing them the ability to divine intent.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If Philly lost 720 kids for the entire year, half of which were ELL, what would be the percentage change in its two largest sources of general education funding? Its Basic Education Funding? Down six one thousands of one percent. Its adequacy funding? Zero point zero.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But ALSO, the vast majority of Philadelphia's funding is not dependent on this year's enrollment AT ALL. It is in a "base" that will never change. I did the math for last year.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

State funding is through a three year average of average daily membership, a tally that is taken monthly, and then averaged. There is nothing special about October 1. It is not like if you have a kid enrolled on October 1, you magically get to keep funding.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Principals know many things. They are heroes. But they generally don't get how the state funding system works, including here. October 1 enrollment has essentially no impact on state funding.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But even if every single child should actually be dis-enrolled, does having them on the books before October 1 (the first time we report on school enrollment) get the district more funding? No, not in any meaningful way at all.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is some subset of that 720 kids who had to flee the United States? Very possible. I have sadly seen the impact of ICE enforcement in my own child's class. But is that all of them? Of course not -- kids get lost in the shuffle in a giant city, and a school must -- must -- try to find them.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To start, the premise is that the District is forcing schools to reenroll 720 kids who were dis-enrolled without proper documentation. Is that wrong? Generally, not at all. Schools have a legal responsibility to find out why a kid is not coming to school.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Inquirer reported that the Philly School District is juking enrollment stats, including this quote from a principal: "They’re doing this so we don’t lose the funding." That statement is almost certainly wrong.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There has to be more to it. If they are juking the stats for funding, they are doing so for *exceedingly* small amounts of money.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hard to win while paying $80 million to Realmutto, Nola, Keller, and Desi Relaford.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is both profoundly sad and also just big loser shit. Big cities should have institutions - but we have watched as Atwater Kent, University of the Arts, and now the Academy have been allowed to wither without any seeming civic energy to stop it from happening.

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Noah Becker @noahbecker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We want our children to think about others, to share, to tell the truth, to chase their passions. We want that in spite of the evidence it’s not how the world works. The new Golden Rule: Do unto others as would most increase shareholder value."

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Afterwards you can get a slice at Argento’s, a bat from Gold Medal Sports, and catch a movie at the AMC. (If you know, you know.)

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I still remember the Daily News headline after game 8: Seven and Onederful. It was a joyous year. (Of course in retrospect, Dykstra was an awful human being and there was obvious roid use.) But it was joy. And they *were* very good, and should have had a game 7, with Schilling lined up to go.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Plus the Eagles had the worst owner in sports, who just lost the best defensive end in the history of the sport. The Sixers and their own terrible owner were entering a post-Charles wilderness. And along came the last-place Phillies. They swept their opening series. It was manna from heaven.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I loved 2022. It made my seven year old a permanent baseball fan. And yes—they were bad for the years around 1993. The ownership was awful. The farm system had essentially abandoned/ignored Latin America. Bonds and Bonilla ended our hope by week two of the season.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m not sure why you are angry! It was a special year. Part of it was surely lightning in a bottle. Part of it was guys new to the team in 93. And a huge part of it was that aging guys were all healthy. Dykstra and Daulton, in particular. But there was serious offensive talent on the team.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Only one of them was chunky. He was also insanely talented. The others were, in fact, jacked, because… In any case, the lineup was incredibly deep. And they beat Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz, then lost in game 6 of the WS because their manager refused to put in Tommy Greene over a closer with a shot arm.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Or Sharone Wright. Or Mike Mimbs. Or Bobby Hoying.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Or Jerome Brown killing himself and his nephew. Or Lenny Dykstra nearly killing himself and Darren Daulton.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“He’s back scrambling.” “It is basically a choking situation”

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Before my mom died, our big goal was simple: bump out the horizon until the miracle came. May it come soon enough for others.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

same vibe. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How many falling apart schools could we have modernized?

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This year we are honoring the families of trans kids who stood up to the Trump Administration's attempts to snoop their children's medical records, won, and in doing so, protected kids on both sides of the state and set an example for other suits around the country. pubintlaw.org/2026-annual-...

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2026 Annual Celebration • A Night of Impact | The Public Interest Law Center

Join us Thursday, October 8, 2026, for our annual celebration, A Night of Impact

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bluesky (aka Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) if you like civil rights -- a kid's right to public education, a voter's right to a free and fair election, or a renter's right to a safe home, please consider coming to @pubintlawctr.bsky.social's annual event: pubintlaw.org/2026-annual-...

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2026 Annual Celebration • A Night of Impact | The Public Interest Law Center

Join us Thursday, October 8, 2026, for our annual celebration, A Night of Impact

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Brian Barrish @brianbarrish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

MALALA SAYS GO BIRDS

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Next play. Every coordinator in the league will target him.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

His dad, a Philly Rec Center leader, started the Anderson Monarchs, an amazing youth sports program in Philadelphia, with teammates like Mo’ne Davis. He is now about to make his MLb debut! sfstandard.com/2026/09/12/s...

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Giants outfield prospect Scott Bandura to join team in San Francisco

The Princeton product has hit 13 home runs and stolen 34 bases across two levels this season.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My ten year old, at dinner: Pablo Torre found out.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One time my daughter threw up before we were even off Mt Desert Island. We rode with a faint vomit smell from there to home.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Have done the Saturday Acadia-to-Philly a few times with the kids. The New Jersey turnpike feels like the real slog.

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And also the author of super sweet pre-teen sports stories.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

BREAKING: DOJ moves to dismiss another appeal of its district court losses on the trans care administrative subpoenas. This case involves the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; the appeal is at the Third Circuit. DOJ's opening brief was due today. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-f...

Case: 26-1401
Document: 29
Page: 1
Date Filed: 08/10/2026
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
IN RE: 2025 UPMC SUBPOENA
Nos. 26-1401, 26-1545
UNOPPOSED MOTION TO VOLUNTARILY DISMISS APPEAL
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 42(b), the government respectfully moves to voluntarily dismiss this consolidated
appeal, with all parties to bear their own costs. Plaintiffs-Appellees do not
oppose this motion.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Comment from Mimi McKenzie, lawyer for the patients who brought the challenge to the administrative subpoena: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...

The lawyers for the hospital’s patients, who brought the challenge, noted both the success of the litigation — and the future unknowns.

“The children we represented, their families, and all minor patients from UPMC’s gender-affirming care clinic can now rest easy that their personal information will not be exposed to a hostile administration,” Mimi McKenzie, legal director of the Public Interest Law Center, said in a statement provided to Law Dork. “That’s a win for patients. But it came with a great cost. They faced the possibility of harassment from the federal government and the fear that their private healthcare records would be in the hands of people who think that transgender and nonbinary people shouldn’t exist.”

McKenzie warned, however, that DOJ “has been reaching agreements with healthcare providers to end gender-affirming care and prop up ‘de-transition’ clinics, at a cost of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars,“ adding, “Gender-affirming care is legal in Pennsylvania, and gender-based discrimination is not. UPMC must follow the law and not cave to a hostile administration.”

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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg @danua.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Why do Philadelphia's criteria-based schools (the "magnets," if you are old like me) have so few students with disabilities in them? One reason might be that our school district punished them for seeking reasonable accommodations in their applications. No longer. www.inquirer.com/education/sp...

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Philly just shifted its rules for how kids with disabilities can get into special admissions schools. A lawsuit threat prompted the change.

“The district should want to have engaged and talented students with disabilities in our top schools, not push them out," said a parent whose child was affected by the now-changed policy.

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