Dan Dawer
@dandawer.bsky.social
Ed Policy PhD student @UT Austin. Former MS/HS teacher. he/him 🌹🌱 Be realistic, demand the impossible.
Dissertation proposal successfully defended!
March 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Dissertation proposal successfully defended!
I’ll be a panelist on an upcoming webinar about the state takeover of Houston ISD:
unlv.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us Friday 3/21 for a discussion with takeover experts @domingomorel.bsky.social, @bethschueler.bsky.social, and Steven Nelson about this critical topic.
unlv.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us Friday 3/21 for a discussion with takeover experts @domingomorel.bsky.social, @bethschueler.bsky.social, and Steven Nelson about this critical topic.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Education Law & Society Webinar Series: The State Takeover of Houston Independent School District. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ...
Education Law & Society Webinar Series: The State Takeover of Houston Independent School District.
Date & Time: Friday, March. 21, 2025 @ 9:00 am to 10:15 am (PDT)
unlv.zoom.us
March 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I’ll be a panelist on an upcoming webinar about the state takeover of Houston ISD:
unlv.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us Friday 3/21 for a discussion with takeover experts @domingomorel.bsky.social, @bethschueler.bsky.social, and Steven Nelson about this critical topic.
unlv.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us Friday 3/21 for a discussion with takeover experts @domingomorel.bsky.social, @bethschueler.bsky.social, and Steven Nelson about this critical topic.
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Our friends at Brookings have been preparing for this moment. www.brookings.edu/collection/w...
Why we have and need a US Department of Education
This series considers what the U.S. Department of Education does to shape education policy and practice in the United States.
www.brookings.edu
March 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Our friends at Brookings have been preparing for this moment. www.brookings.edu/collection/w...
Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education is a direct attack on the nation’s children and teachers. Today’s Executive Order will hurt public schools in both red and blue states, and across urban, rural, and suburban communities.
March 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education is a direct attack on the nation’s children and teachers. Today’s Executive Order will hurt public schools in both red and blue states, and across urban, rural, and suburban communities.
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he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey
March 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey
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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.
February 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.
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Another way to put this:
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion, Itemized Data Show Far Less
The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
www.bloomberg.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Another way to put this:
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
We should be absolutely clear what is at stake in the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate civil rights in education This is war; we should all be acting accordingly.
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
AAUP President: ED's Office of Civil Rights Has Declared War on American Civil Rights in Education
A new statement by AAUP President Todd Wolfson speaks out against the potential elimination of federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds, the latest blat...
www.aaup.org
February 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We should be absolutely clear what is at stake in the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate civil rights in education This is war; we should all be acting accordingly.
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...
“How can we, all of us, commit right now to a new kind of ‘public education’— not supplanting or replacing formal schools, but subverting an authoritarian grip on them?” inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
Trump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight Back
It’s not enough to be afraid of the laws and rules we don’t want to see in schools. We have to clarify our visions of what we are fighting for.
inthesetimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“How can we, all of us, commit right now to a new kind of ‘public education’— not supplanting or replacing formal schools, but subverting an authoritarian grip on them?” inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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The TX voucher bill #SB2 has moved fast. Here are the steps:
💰 Defund public schools
😈 Demonize public schools, teachers & students
🔏 Privatize schools w a voucher
#txed #txlege
Thanks @texasobserver.org !
💰 Defund public schools
😈 Demonize public schools, teachers & students
🔏 Privatize schools w a voucher
#txed #txlege
Thanks @texasobserver.org !
Texas state lawmakers have gaveled in and started stepping to the tune of well-funded efforts to pass private school vouchers and undercut public schools. Here's how Republicans plan to defund, demonize, and privatize public education.
The 'Texas Three-Step': Defund, Demonize, and Privatize Public Schools
Vouchers become subsidies for families who had already decided to pay for private school, at the expense of public schools that must serve all students.
www.texasobserver.org
February 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The TX voucher bill #SB2 has moved fast. Here are the steps:
💰 Defund public schools
😈 Demonize public schools, teachers & students
🔏 Privatize schools w a voucher
#txed #txlege
Thanks @texasobserver.org !
💰 Defund public schools
😈 Demonize public schools, teachers & students
🔏 Privatize schools w a voucher
#txed #txlege
Thanks @texasobserver.org !
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
It’s hinted at in the article, but it needs to be emphasized how deeply the takeover of HISD has relied on fear and intimidation. Teachers and students are not just miserable; they’re made to feel constantly afraid as a force to motivate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Is Micromanaging Teachers a Recipe for School Success? (Gift Article)
A new superintendent is trying to improve Houston’s public schools through strictly structured teaching. The district says it’s working. Many educators and parents hate it.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It’s hinted at in the article, but it needs to be emphasized how deeply the takeover of HISD has relied on fear and intimidation. Teachers and students are not just miserable; they’re made to feel constantly afraid as a force to motivate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Houston parents and community members from CVPE @houstoncvpe.bsky.social are at the Texas Capitol today engaging state legislators. Our asks: say NO to vouchers, return HISD to local control, and adopt enrollment-based funding for public education.
January 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Houston parents and community members from CVPE @houstoncvpe.bsky.social are at the Texas Capitol today engaging state legislators. Our asks: say NO to vouchers, return HISD to local control, and adopt enrollment-based funding for public education.
I'm pleased to share the publication of my article in @epaa.bsky.social: "'We are not your colony': Policy discourses and resistance in Texas’s takeover of Houston Independent School District." epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep... 1/4
“We are not your colony”: Policy discourses and resistance in Texas’s takeover of Houston Independent School District
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epaa.asu.edu
January 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I'm pleased to share the publication of my article in @epaa.bsky.social: "'We are not your colony': Policy discourses and resistance in Texas’s takeover of Houston Independent School District." epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep... 1/4
Call for submissions for a special issue on state takeover!
I’ll be guest co-editing the Texas Education Review’s Summer 2025 special issue focusing on experiences of takeover. Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are all invited to submit.
review.education.utexas.edu/call-for-sub...
I’ll be guest co-editing the Texas Education Review’s Summer 2025 special issue focusing on experiences of takeover. Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are all invited to submit.
review.education.utexas.edu/call-for-sub...
Call for Submissions | Texas Education Review
review.education.utexas.edu
January 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Call for submissions for a special issue on state takeover!
I’ll be guest co-editing the Texas Education Review’s Summer 2025 special issue focusing on experiences of takeover. Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are all invited to submit.
review.education.utexas.edu/call-for-sub...
I’ll be guest co-editing the Texas Education Review’s Summer 2025 special issue focusing on experiences of takeover. Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are all invited to submit.
review.education.utexas.edu/call-for-sub...