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Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay about her daughter’s education is heartbreaking because it poses a question almost every parent understands: Did I make the right choice for my child? Hannah-Jones made …

The Iris Murdoch quote is from her book The Sovereignty of Good, specifically the essay “The Idea of Perfection.” Murdoch writes,

When supporters of Trump's new federal voucher said it is not an educational program, they weren't kidding.

Starting on January 1, 2027, the federal government will sponsor its own voucher program. In this post, Peter Greene explains how the new program will work. You can be sure that every dollar spent …

The left has no vision for public schools - and that’s a big problem

Bruce Baker taught for many years at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He now teaches education policy at the University of Miami. He will have many opportunities to observe and document edu-grifti…

By Thomas Ultican 9/30/2026 This weekend, an NPE conference was held at the Hyatt Hotel in Conroe, Texas a suburb of Houston. It was a bit isolated but with the high temperatures outside there was …

Republican lawmakers in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Alabama—are pushing a wave of recent legislation requiring schools to display The Ten Commandments in public K-12 schools, and colleges. Othe…

It’s a ‘Going Along’ vs ‘Doing Wrong’ kinda contest

In January 2027, the federal government will launch a new voucher program. It’s available to states if the Governor opted to participate. The program was part of what Trump called his “…

Jabbia is out. Read about it here: The [St. Tammany (LA) Parish Public Schools] district confirmed in a statement Wednesday that Superintendent Frank Jabbia will retire after 32 years in the distri…

Jabbia is out. Read about it here: The [St. Tammany (LA) Parish Public Schools] district confirmed in a statement Wednesday that Superintendent Frank Jabbia will retire after 32 years in the distri…

By Thomas Ultican 9/30/2026 This weekend, an NPE conference was held at the Hyatt Hotel in Conroe, Texas a suburb of Houston. It was a bit isolated but with the high temperatures outside there was …

Republicans have unleashed their candidates looking for fraud. I guess they don’t own any mirrors. Or consume any non-MAGA media

Thirty five years ago, September 1991, I started my teaching career at Deady Middle School in Houston TX. Though I had not had a traditional teacher training, I was able to get this first job becau…

Bruce Baker is one of the stellar scholars in the field of economics of education. He is currently at the University of Miami. He is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning…

Running a government like a business is a lousy idea

California’s Constitutional Offices: Part One

From Forbes.com

“If we really want to think of the region we live in as a beloved community, then we should do what we can to make life more secure and dignified for all San Diegans.”

Freddy DeBoer challenges the oft-repeated claim that American schools are failing. We have heard the same lament since 1983, when the Reagan administration published a pamphlet titled “A Nati…

Sometimes I follow up old post subjects, but this time was special.

The Potential Harm of SoR Laws Limiting Children’s Cognitive Development While Non-Human Intelligence is Increasing Exponentially:

This is one of the most horrifying stories of child abuse that I have ever read. The parents of 8-year-old Isaiah Harrison thought he was too fat. The child was about 200 pounds. They kept him home…

The fabulous cabaret singer Sophie Tucker, well known in the mid-20th century, said: “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Believe me, rich is better.” If children have any sa…

Julian Vasquez Heilig is a professor of educational leadership at Western Michigan University. As a writer and scholar in Texas, California, Kentucky, and now Michigan, he has concentrated on issue…

This fall the airwaves are blasting political ads from billionaires and crypto currency entrepreneurs who seek to protect their personal largess—and mostly forget about the rest of us—b…

By Thomas Ultican 9/23/2026 I am looking forward to the Network for Public Education (NPE) conference in Houston September 25-27. It seems when public schools and human rights are under attack that…

By Thomas Ultican 9/23/2026 I am looking forward to the Network for Public Education (NPE) conference in Houston September 25-27. It seems when public schools and human rights are under attack that…

Since my recent post on miscue analysis, I received some questions about validity.

A decade ago, superstar journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote the cover story of the New York Times Magazine about her decision to send her daughter to a local public school, which was segregated an…

By Thomas Ultican 9/23/2026 I am looking forward to the Network for Public Education (NPE) conference in Houston September 25-27. It seems when public schools and human rights are under attack that…

“I know my child”

Including a dude so bad not even Republicans would endorse him

The through line for MAGA politics is simple enough.

Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, explains why this NPE conference will be stellar. She writes: A community governs its public schools. Neighbors elect a board, …

Gene Glass, one of the nation’s most eminent education researchers, sent me the following perspective on how vouchers are subsidizing religious schools in Arizona. But first a short primer on…

School districts across Ohio are facing financial crises.  The Columbus Dispatch’s Cole Behrens reports: “More than 120 Ohio public school districts are projecting negative cash balance…

In 2025, the Trump administration put through an education budget that slashed the living daylights out of education.

Apparently everybody anywhere in the education orbit is whipping through the Nikole Hanah-Jones piece in which she recounts the story of sacrificing her daughter’s schooling on a matter of principle, ...

The commonwealth is way behind the curve when it comes to protection for students in the AI world.

“...the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.”

The biggest political news of the past few days is that the nonpartisan, highly respected Siena College poll reported that Democrat Gina Hinojosa is leading rightwing Governor Greg Abbott in Texas …

The biggest political news of the past few days is that the nonpartisan, highly respected Siena College poll reported that Democrat Gina Hinojosa is leading rightwing Governor Greg Abbott in Texas …

So those of you who know me for my posts about charter schools and Teach For America, well, this is something very different but I promise I will approach it with my same compulsion and witty (and …