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Andy Saultz
@andysaultz.bsky.social
I study ed policy and love Oregon, sports, and politics. I work in higher ed and have two amazing children. Learning about leadership and aging parents.
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Not ideal…
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
October 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.

One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
September 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Enjoyed talking with Joanna Hou at Willamette Week about school board leadership and superintendent relationship.

www.wweek.com/news/schools...

@wweek.com
Portland School Board Leaders Want To Try A New Style of Governance
Eddie Wang and Michelle DePass want a new School Board to prioritize the bigger picture. But accountability means different things to different members.
www.wweek.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Science! 🫠
In 2019, 70% of Republicans said science has had a mostly positive effect on society. A few years later, fewer than half of Republicans (47%) said so.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
September 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Thrilled to welcome Dr. Torres back to the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling as Associate Dean. Danielle is a tremendous leader who is dedicated to serving our students and centering equity. @lclark.bsky.social
www.lclark.edu/live/news/56...
August 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Friday afternoon surprise! My team gets me. @lclark.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Wow!
Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, are donating $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute—the largest known single gift to a U.S. university, coming at a time when colleges’ public funding is under siege.
Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight Gives $2 Billion to Oregon Cancer Center in Record Gift
Knight and his wife are making a record private gift to Oregon Health & Science University amid broader battles over public funding for higher education.
on.wsj.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Hot take, people who hate cities shouldn’t be in charge of cities
August 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”?

You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.
August 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Got my ID card today and they asked if I was a law student. Couldn’t tell if that was a compliment or not. 🤷‍♂️
August 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget
NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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This is all very bad.
July 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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It's been 5 months since we wrote this. I'm still worried.

"cuts aren’t efficient if education leaders lose access to data and research that helps them make more informed, cost-effective decisions about resource allocation." #EdResearch #EdPolicy www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...
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).
www.brookings.edu
July 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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July 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Notre Dame keeps hiring!

Director of Research Programs for the Center for Educational Research and Action

Due date to apply: August 1

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityOf...
Director of Research Programs | ERA
Company Description: The University of Notre Dame is more than a workplace, it's a vibrant, mission-driven community where every employee is valued and supported. Rooted in a tradition of excellence a...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Today marks the 177th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, a landmark moment in the fight for women’s voting rights that helped pave the way for the 19th Amendment. At the Brennan Center, we continue to fight to ensure every American — regardless of race or gender — can cast a ballot.
July 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Thinking about John Lewis and his legacy of fighting for justice. We are a better country because of his leadership.
July 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
NIH too? 🙏
🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!!

An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today.

🧵 Brief thread 1/4
Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants
Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment
www.science.org
July 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Dame coming home would make me happy.
July 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Savvy operative types in DC truly believed then and believe now that average Americans are too dumb to understand how government works or why it exists. Educating and defending the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—with its profound impact on people for negligible taxpayer cost—was a layup.
July 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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AEFP invites applications for the editorship of EFP, the association’s flagship journal. Applications are due Nov 1. Read more about it here: aefpweb.org/callfore...
July 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM