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Dan Gordon
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Working in edu-policy & strategy at EducationCounsel. Former civil rights lawyer & DC Public Schools teacher/district official. Views my own. He/Him
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Sunday marked 6 months since Inauguration. Now that we're (gulp) 1/8th through the term, we listed the key executive actions affecting education (with a few legislative & judicial ones too).

Hope it's a useful resource for finding some signals amid all the noise.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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July 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Hard to square this circle eh?
Screenshot of a tweet on X accompanying a video clip of Linda McMahon's interview on Fox News on 3/30/25. The tweet was retweeted by McMahon. It reads as follows: . @EDSecMcMahon: "Education will be in a much better place when it's closest to the students. @POTUS believes, as do I, the best education is that closest to the students. Who knows more [than] parents, teachers, local superintendents?"
March 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Doomscrolling through the electeds’ reactions to the USED order and leave it to my home state to cheer me up. Ladies & gents we have a “winner”:
Tweet from Rep Byron Donalds: “.@usedgov has FAILED. They prioritized bureaucracy over the success of our kids. Thank you @realDonaldTrump for signing this historic EO. It's time to return education to the states & in Florida, we will ensure our kids are not just at grade-level, but that they're PROFICIENT.”
March 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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In All4Ed's recent national poll, 58% oppose / 29% support among all voters with majority of Rs opposing too. all4ed.org/publication/...
March 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Updated it for him:
Screenshot of a 6/15/20 tweet by President Trump, with some handwritten editing marks. Original tweet text is "Our testing is so much bigger and more advanced than any other country (we have done a great job on this!) that it shows more cases. Without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases. Testing is a double edged sword - Makes us look bad, but good to have!!!" The image replaces the two uses of "cases" with "gaps" and deletes "some words so the last sentence now reads "Testing...makes us look bad...!!!"
February 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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how it started vs how it's going, #BHM edition

1) www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
2) x.com/SecDuffy/sta...
Excerpt from statement by President Trump (1/31/25): "NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2025 as National Black History Month. I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities." Tweet by Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy (2/1/25): "Effective immediately, the Department of Transportation will no longer participate in celebrations based on immutable traits or any other identity-based observances. These distractions do nothing to keep planes in the air, trains on the tracks, or ports and highways secure. In the wake of two devastating plane crashes, my focus is singular: enforcing the highest standards of safety and accountability. From now on, everyday of every month we celebrate transportation, beautiful infrastructure, and safety."
February 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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He also falsely described Hylton-Brown as an "illegal" (he was born here, which is STILL how we determine citizenship) and a "criminal" (no adult felony record, according to the Post):

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Quote from a Washington Post article: "Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office hours after his inauguration Monday, Trump hinted at forthcoming pardons in the case. “Well, we’re looking at two police officers, actually, Washington police officers, who went after an illegal, and things happened and they ended up putting them in jail,” he said. “They got five-year jail sentences. You know the case. And we’re looking at that in order to give them — we got to give them a break.”
January 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Same dynamic has existed for a long time in education, with a ~30pp higher rating for people's own public school than for public schools in general: news.gallup.com/poll/510401/...
Gallup poll chart titled "Parents Remain More Satisfied With Oldest Child's K-12 Education Quality Than Americans Are With U.S. K-12 Education Quality" that shows, for example, in 2023, 36% of US adults were completely or somewhat satisfied with US K-12 education but 76% of them felt that way about their oldest child's education. The chart shows a similar relationship existing since 1999.
November 18, 2024 at 5:24 PM