Student hospitalized during Survival Challenge on wilderness ranch; police investigation is ongoing; other concerning incidents re student safety and privacy; one guide fired; also Little B. Diddies

You can be highly efficient at producing low outcomes. Why efficiency claims require measuring cost, why spending-vs-scores charts mislead policy, and what a proper frontier analysis of 8,000 distr…

My critiques of Marguerite Roza, the Edunomics Lab, and Education Resource Strategies, from 2009 to 2026, with receipts.

My critiques of Marguerite Roza, the Edunomics Lab, and Education Resource Strategies, from 2009 to 2026, with receipts.

A decade after I last published these lists, 47 districts with at least 2,000 students still have more than 1.5 times the child poverty rate of their labor market and spend less than 90% of what th…

When high-ranking government officials can profit from the crypto industry, prediction markets, and stock trading, corruption can thrive.

After an extended fight over disclosing the records, the state has been ordered to cover attorney fees.

American children are in trouble. After generations of improvement, test scores are declining and fewer children are showing up to class. COVID-19 knocked school systems off-kilter, disrupting the ste...

Five cases, four mechanisms, one ranking: this post lines up the biggest fraud prosecutions, the biggest company-store combination, and the biggest sweeps contract in the charter sector’s his…

The debate is playing out prominently in five states: Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Ohio and Texas.

A decade ago I wrote about charter operators who require the people paid with public money to spend a share of it back at a store the operator itself owns. Here it is again, in four states, with th…

A decade ago I wrote about charter operators who require the people paid with public money to spend a share of it back at a store the operator itself owns. Here it is again, in four states, with th…

Charter school facilities financing produces two distinct, well-documented, and fixable problems: districts selling public buildings to charter operators far below market value, and charter operato…

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

Following public dollars through a traditional school district is, by comparison, straightforward. District budgets are public record. Board meetings are open. Every dollar of state and local reven…

Florida's "gator bait" cheer, banned in 2020 over concerns about possible racial undertones, returned to the Swamp early in the first quarter of Saturday's season opener against Florida Atlantic.

Why are we so eager to scrutinize the spending decisions of districts that have significantly less money to spend in the first place?

Building out tables & graphics for public sharing on Education Rights and Enforcement in U.S. States (Claude assisted) US_State_Education_ProvisionsDownload In progress: Global Education Rights…