Donna Roof
@qbgtwo.bsky.social
Retired teacher, public education advocate, Northeast Indiana Friends of Public Education (NEIFPE)
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Ravitch has published two dozen books and countless articles. She is a historian—making her the Heather Cox Richardson of education history, someone who can remind you that when it comes to education policy, what goes around comes around. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/26/d...
Diane Ravitch Sums It All Up
My introduction to Diane Ravitch: I can’t remember precisely which education conference it was, but I was in graduate school, so it was between 2005 and 2010. Ravitch had just begun writing her Bri…
teacherinastrangeland.blog
October 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Ravitch has published two dozen books and countless articles. She is a historian—making her the Heather Cox Richardson of education history, someone who can remind you that when it comes to education policy, what goes around comes around. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/26/d...
There Was No "Miracle" in New Orleans
There Was No “Miracle” in New Orleans
This is the most important post you will read today or this week, maybe this month, if you care about the future of American public schools. It’s about the importance of honest research; it&#…
dianeravitch.net
September 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
There Was No "Miracle" in New Orleans
Jennifer Berkshire: Is Public Education Over?
Jennifer Berkshire: Is Public Education Over?
Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book about the the danger that school choice and testing posed to public schools. Its title: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Cho…
dianeravitch.net
September 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Jennifer Berkshire: Is Public Education Over?
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Part I of our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning documents the growth & decline of the charter school movement & explores the question: Has the charter market reached
its saturation point? Read our new report here networkforpubliceduc...
its saturation point? Read our new report here networkforpubliceduc...
Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment and Cost - Network For Public Education
Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, Charter School Reckoning, presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating closures plaguing the charter school sector as it enters its fourth decade. The report, published by the National Center for Charter School Accountability, documents that in the first half of 2025 alone, 50 […]
networkforpubliceducation.org
July 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Part I of our new report #CharterSchoolReckoning documents the growth & decline of the charter school movement & explores the question: Has the charter market reached
its saturation point? Read our new report here networkforpubliceduc...
its saturation point? Read our new report here networkforpubliceduc...
A long-term look at Indiana’s budget shows education spending lacking
A long-term look at Indiana’s budget shows education spending lacking • Indiana Capital Chronicle
The Indiana biennial budget faced significant challenges, but the long-term changes to how we spend our state tax dollars are more important.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A long-term look at Indiana’s budget shows education spending lacking
What Do the July 1 Federal School Funding Cuts Mean for Students, Communities, and the Constitution? janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...
What Do the July 1 Federal School Funding Cuts Mean for Students, Communities, and the Constitution?
In late July, with the school year beginning in most places in about a month, there are few firm answers about whether school districts will ever be granted access to the almost $7 billion in feder…
janresseger.wordpress.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
What Do the July 1 Federal School Funding Cuts Mean for Students, Communities, and the Constitution? janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/w...
Indiana colleges cut hundreds of low-enrollment degree programs ahead of state mandate indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/01/i...
Indiana colleges cut hundreds of low-enrollment degree programs ahead of state mandate • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Six of Indiana’s public colleges and universities are cutting or consolidating more than 400 academic degree programs.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Indiana colleges cut hundreds of low-enrollment degree programs ahead of state mandate indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/01/i...
Carol Burris: Update on the School Funds in Trump's Big Ugly Budget Bill dianeravitch.net/2025/07/01/c...
Carol Burris: Update on the School Funds in Trump’s Big Ugly Budget Bill
Most attention has focused on the horrible cuts to Medicaid and food assistance (SNAP) in the bill just passed by the GOP majority in the Senate. It has some differences with the version passed by …
dianeravitch.net
July 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Carol Burris: Update on the School Funds in Trump's Big Ugly Budget Bill dianeravitch.net/2025/07/01/c...
A Personal Report to My Friends Who Read the Blog dianeravitch.net/2025/05/26/a...
A Personal Report to My Friends Who Read the Blog
I spent this past weekend at my sixty-fifth reunion at Wellesley College. Since I graduated in 1960, I have never missed one. Part of my faithfulness is grounded in nostalgia, in a chance to relive…
dianeravitch.net
May 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A Personal Report to My Friends Who Read the Blog dianeravitch.net/2025/05/26/a...
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"School vouchers are increasingly eating up state budgets in a way that I don't think is sustainable long term.." stateline.org/2025/0... #SchoolvoucherScam
Rapidly expanding school voucher programs pinch state budgets • Stateline
The price of vouchers and scholarship programs, which funnel billions in public money to private schools, is mounting for states.
stateline.org
May 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"School vouchers are increasingly eating up state budgets in a way that I don't think is sustainable long term.." stateline.org/2025/0... #SchoolvoucherScam
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"Big Beautiful Bill" in Congress Hurts Poor Children and Establishes New Federal School Vouchers janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/b...
May 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Big Beautiful Bill" in Congress Hurts Poor Children and Establishes New Federal School Vouchers janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/b...
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NPE Exec Director @carolburris.bsky.social - This Supreme Court Decision Could Determine the Future of Charter Schools in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/publ...
This Supreme Court Decision Could Determine the Future of Charter Schools
A ruling in favor of a religious charter school for Oklahoma could disrupt the 'public' status the charter industry enjoys.
progressive.org
May 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
NPE Exec Director @carolburris.bsky.social - This Supreme Court Decision Could Determine the Future of Charter Schools in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/publ...
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The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added to age-old money problems for teachers, such as underfunded schools.
On Teacher Appreciation Week, union leaders say teachers are underpaid and under attack
The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added to age-old money problems for teachers, such as underfunded schools.
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added to age-old money problems for teachers, such as underfunded schools.
‘A giant leap backwards’: Indiana opts out of summer program for hungry schoolchildren indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/07/a...
‘A giant leap backwards’: Indiana opts out of summer program for hungry schoolchildren • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana will no longer participate in a program to feed schoolchildren through direct family payments during summer vacation.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
‘A giant leap backwards’: Indiana opts out of summer program for hungry schoolchildren indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/07/a...
Pastors for Texas Children on the Signing of the Voucher Bill dianeravitch.net/2025/05/06/p...
Pastors for Texas Children on the Signing of the Voucher Bill
One of the most determined opponents of vouchers in Texas was the Pastors for Texas Children. While some faith leaders celebrated the opportunity to get public money for their religious schools, th…
dianeravitch.net
May 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Pastors for Texas Children on the Signing of the Voucher Bill dianeravitch.net/2025/05/06/p...