Rob Wisc
@robwisc.bsky.social
US educational policy | political economies | community organizing | labor
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February's NEPC Talks Education podcast is here! @cmsaldana.bsky.social interviews @ericaoturner.bsky.social and @bryanmann.bsky.social about how demographic change is reshaping American schools and how current policy responses can promote equity and integration. bit.ly/3OjNEEO
NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Erica Turner and Bryan Mann About Demographic Change, Segregation, and the Future of School Equity
University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Erica Turner and Bryan Mann about how demographic change is reshaping American schools and how current policy respons...
nepc.colorado.edu
February 17, 2026 at 3:40 PM
February's NEPC Talks Education podcast is here! @cmsaldana.bsky.social interviews @ericaoturner.bsky.social and @bryanmann.bsky.social about how demographic change is reshaping American schools and how current policy responses can promote equity and integration. bit.ly/3OjNEEO
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I just signed the @ncaaup.bsky.social petition calling on the UNC Board of Governors to Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising the UNC System Code.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code
The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...
actionnetwork.org
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I just signed the @ncaaup.bsky.social petition calling on the UNC Board of Governors to Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising the UNC System Code.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
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Join @ncaaup.bsky.social in opposing major restrictions on academic freedom in the UNC System--sign the petition actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code
The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...
actionnetwork.org
February 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Join @ncaaup.bsky.social in opposing major restrictions on academic freedom in the UNC System--sign the petition actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
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Here's a must-listen item from the folks at UIC UF. Covers lots of important labor organizing topics, and is especially informative on ways to push back against edtech and the imposition of AI and data mining across university systems @aaup.org
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/theory-at-...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/theory-at-...
Theory At The Bargaining Table (Vandal Live at UIC)
with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh
theamericanvandal.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Here's a must-listen item from the folks at UIC UF. Covers lots of important labor organizing topics, and is especially informative on ways to push back against edtech and the imposition of AI and data mining across university systems @aaup.org
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/theory-at-...
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/theory-at-...
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🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨
Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike:
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike:
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
February 11, 2026 at 11:28 PM
🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨
Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike:
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike:
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
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Don't forget: our children are being abused in taxpayer funded immigrant prisons where medical care is deplorable, freedom is nonexistent, & trauma is rampant.
Imprisoned children are left with a lifetime of anxiety, depression, & PTSD.
They deserve to be as free as Liam is today.
Imprisoned children are left with a lifetime of anxiety, depression, & PTSD.
They deserve to be as free as Liam is today.
Urgency grows as hundreds of children languish in immigration detention—sick, scared, and depressed.
A judge’s order last weekend sent Liam Conejo Ramos back home to Minneapolis. But so many others remain jailed. Leaders nationwide are speaking out to defend a critical legal safeguard. ⬇️
A judge’s order last weekend sent Liam Conejo Ramos back home to Minneapolis. But so many others remain jailed. Leaders nationwide are speaking out to defend a critical legal safeguard. ⬇️
February 3, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Don't forget: our children are being abused in taxpayer funded immigrant prisons where medical care is deplorable, freedom is nonexistent, & trauma is rampant.
Imprisoned children are left with a lifetime of anxiety, depression, & PTSD.
They deserve to be as free as Liam is today.
Imprisoned children are left with a lifetime of anxiety, depression, & PTSD.
They deserve to be as free as Liam is today.
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“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
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"When a student who is usually in class suddenly stops showing up, or when a senior once excited to go to college says they don’t want to go anymore, we know why." www.edweek.org/leadership/o...
'Fear Is a Thief of Focus.' A Teacher on the Impact of ICE and Renee Nicole Good's Death (Opinion)
At a time that feels like a state of emergency, educators are doing their best to protect students.
www.edweek.org
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
"When a student who is usually in class suddenly stops showing up, or when a senior once excited to go to college says they don’t want to go anymore, we know why." www.edweek.org/leadership/o...
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This is what it looks like when legislators refuse to adequately fund schools and the current NC Supreme Court majority allows legislators to continue violating the state constitution.
www.wfae.org/education/20...
www.wfae.org/education/20...
After almost two-year wait, education advocates call on Supreme Court to rule on Leandro
More than 700 days after the North Carolina Supreme Court last heard arguments in the nearly 32-year-old Leandro school funding case, there’s still no ruling.
www.wfae.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
This is what it looks like when legislators refuse to adequately fund schools and the current NC Supreme Court majority allows legislators to continue violating the state constitution.
www.wfae.org/education/20...
www.wfae.org/education/20...
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Worth reiterating:
All my respect and more to academic women, especially full professors who’ve put up with this their whole careers.
I am genuinely in awe of you.
All my respect and more to academic women, especially full professors who’ve put up with this their whole careers.
I am genuinely in awe of you.
February 1, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Worth reiterating:
All my respect and more to academic women, especially full professors who’ve put up with this their whole careers.
I am genuinely in awe of you.
All my respect and more to academic women, especially full professors who’ve put up with this their whole careers.
I am genuinely in awe of you.
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I’m really looking forward to this, and especially to talking about some of our reporting on immigrant dairy workers which began just a few miles from Madison… please come if you can make it!
Online and in person on Tuesday, March 3, the amazing @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social will be a part of a public conversation on ethics and immigration reporting. Free and open to the public. More info: ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu/2026/01/28/p...
February 1, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I’m really looking forward to this, and especially to talking about some of our reporting on immigrant dairy workers which began just a few miles from Madison… please come if you can make it!
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The government is using technology to identify protestors, and then using that information to track and intimidate them. The people using the devices are wearing masks, but we know the companies creating the technology.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The government is using technology to identify protestors, and then using that information to track and intimidate them. The people using the devices are wearing masks, but we know the companies creating the technology.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
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The @interruptcrim Block It! Don’t Build It! Don’t Fill It! Don’t Fuel It! toolkit is also a great source of actions you can take and organizing you can join or be inspired by to throw sand in ICE’s gears even if you can’t be in the streets
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
January 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
The @interruptcrim Block It! Don’t Build It! Don’t Fill It! Don’t Fuel It! toolkit is also a great source of actions you can take and organizing you can join or be inspired by to throw sand in ICE’s gears even if you can’t be in the streets
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
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This article reports that Deloitte has been given nearly $100 million in contracts from ICE and CBP since January 2025.
I would love to see the states that have been targeted by federal immigration enforcement action relieve Deloitte of their human service and benefits system contracts.
I would love to see the states that have been targeted by federal immigration enforcement action relieve Deloitte of their human service and benefits system contracts.
FT Exclusive: Companies including Palantir and Deloitte have collectively reaped more than $22bn from contracts linked to Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. ft.trib.al/FT0cYNc
January 29, 2026 at 4:23 PM
This article reports that Deloitte has been given nearly $100 million in contracts from ICE and CBP since January 2025.
I would love to see the states that have been targeted by federal immigration enforcement action relieve Deloitte of their human service and benefits system contracts.
I would love to see the states that have been targeted by federal immigration enforcement action relieve Deloitte of their human service and benefits system contracts.
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Last week I wrote that ICE (& immigration judges) are increasingly openly defying courts. lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
Now, a judge compiled 100 cases from ICE’s MN siege where ICE ignored court orders.
Yet what are dems offering? Basically—laws that ask ICE to please follow the law.
Now, a judge compiled 100 cases from ICE’s MN siege where ICE ignored court orders.
Yet what are dems offering? Basically—laws that ask ICE to please follow the law.
January 29, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Last week I wrote that ICE (& immigration judges) are increasingly openly defying courts. lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
Now, a judge compiled 100 cases from ICE’s MN siege where ICE ignored court orders.
Yet what are dems offering? Basically—laws that ask ICE to please follow the law.
Now, a judge compiled 100 cases from ICE’s MN siege where ICE ignored court orders.
Yet what are dems offering? Basically—laws that ask ICE to please follow the law.
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Here’s my interview on KPFA yesterday, talking about Marx, education, etc. kpfa.org/episode/educ...
Education Today - January 28, 2026 | KPFA
Professor David Backer looks at educational policy and finance from within a Marxist perspective, and he leads a group within the American Education Research Association Education Today is a radio sho...
kpfa.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Here’s my interview on KPFA yesterday, talking about Marx, education, etc. kpfa.org/episode/educ...
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Does anyone know what's up with the California School Dashboard's growth measure? It doesn't *seem* to match the growth model that was approved by the state, though honest to god I'm not sure I know how it's even being calculated given the description. www.caschooldashboard.org/reports/0161...
California School Dashboard (CA Dept of Education)
The California School Dashboard provides parents and educators with meaningful information on school and district progress so they can participate in decisions to improve student learning.
www.caschooldashboard.org
January 26, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Does anyone know what's up with the California School Dashboard's growth measure? It doesn't *seem* to match the growth model that was approved by the state, though honest to god I'm not sure I know how it's even being calculated given the description. www.caschooldashboard.org/reports/0161...
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Minneapolis is really laying a blueprint here that is telling a powerful story in organized, community resistance. Pay attention.
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Minneapolis is really laying a blueprint here that is telling a powerful story in organized, community resistance. Pay attention.
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While this is for new organizers from @prisonculture.bsky.social it’s an excellent reminder to veteran organizers. In these times (see why I did there?) we must all be grounded in the hope of what’s possible so we can continue to work for it and build it.
"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/livingness & for liberation)."
@prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.
@prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.
Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way
Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.
inthesetimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:07 PM
While this is for new organizers from @prisonculture.bsky.social it’s an excellent reminder to veteran organizers. In these times (see why I did there?) we must all be grounded in the hope of what’s possible so we can continue to work for it and build it.
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So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
January 25, 2026 at 5:42 PM
So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
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Every member of congress has a duty & right to conduct oversight on DHS.
They should all come do rapid response. Come inspect the Twin Cities ICE HQ. Push in and do some oversight. Do not let the guards turn you away. Make them arrest you or beat you or let you in.
They should all come do rapid response. Come inspect the Twin Cities ICE HQ. Push in and do some oversight. Do not let the guards turn you away. Make them arrest you or beat you or let you in.
January 24, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Every member of congress has a duty & right to conduct oversight on DHS.
They should all come do rapid response. Come inspect the Twin Cities ICE HQ. Push in and do some oversight. Do not let the guards turn you away. Make them arrest you or beat you or let you in.
They should all come do rapid response. Come inspect the Twin Cities ICE HQ. Push in and do some oversight. Do not let the guards turn you away. Make them arrest you or beat you or let you in.
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I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
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Any Minnesotan teachers who can give me intel about ICE on school campuses? Will keep you anon.
Mrs.frazzled@gmail.com or text/leave a voicemail 202-847-6577
Mrs.frazzled@gmail.com or text/leave a voicemail 202-847-6577
January 22, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Any Minnesotan teachers who can give me intel about ICE on school campuses? Will keep you anon.
Mrs.frazzled@gmail.com or text/leave a voicemail 202-847-6577
Mrs.frazzled@gmail.com or text/leave a voicemail 202-847-6577