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Stephen Dyer: How the Ohio Legislature Cheats the Majority of Students, Who Are Enrolled in PUBLIC Schools dianeravitch.net/2025/11/17/s...
Stephen Dyer: How the Ohio Legislature Cheats the Majority of Students, Who Are Enrolled in PUBLIC Schools
Stephen Dyer is a former legislator who keeps watch on the ways that Ohio Republicans have cheated public school students. Ohio Republicans love charters and vouchers, even though taxpayers have be…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Stephen Dyer: How the Ohio Legislature Cheats the Majority of Students, Who Are Enrolled in PUBLIC Schools dianeravitch.net/2025/11/17/s...
Trump's Shocking Destruction of the Department of Justice dianeravitch.net/2025/11/17/t...
Trump’s Shocking Destruction of the Department of Justice
The New York Times published a deeply researched article about the Trump administration’s systematic destruction of the U.S. Department of Justice. This is a gift article, meaning that non-su…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Trump's Shocking Destruction of the Department of Justice dianeravitch.net/2025/11/17/t...
Shutdown Over, But Staff at Ed Department Still Threatened dianeravitch.net/2025/11/14/s...
Shutdown Over, But Staff at Ed Department Still Threatened
With the government shutdown over, staff at the U.S. Department of Education return with fear for what lies ahead. Before the election, I assumed that Trump could not shutter the Department because…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Shutdown Over, But Staff at Ed Department Still Threatened dianeravitch.net/2025/11/14/s...
Randy Rainbow Interviews Trump dianeravitch.net/2025/11/13/r...
Randy Rainbow Interviews Trump
This is the latest parody interview by the irrepressible Randy Rainbow. It takes place while the East Wing of the White House is demolished in the background. As usual, Randy treats his viewers to …
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November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Randy Rainbow Interviews Trump dianeravitch.net/2025/11/13/r...
Ohio: Voters Oust Culture Warriors in Many School Board Elections dianeravitch.net/2025/11/13/o...
Ohio: Voters Oust Culture Warriors in Many School Board Elections
Ohio’s public schools have been victimized repeatedly by its Republican legislatures and governors. Charter schools, online schools, and vouchers have ripped off taxpayers and siphoned funds …
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November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Ohio: Voters Oust Culture Warriors in Many School Board Elections dianeravitch.net/2025/11/13/o...
John Thompson: Oklahoma Wants to Copy the "Mississippi Miracle" by Retaining 3rd Graders dianeravitch.net/2025/11/12/o...
John Thompson: Oklahoma Wants to Copy the “Mississippi Miracle” by Retaining 3rd Graders
Oklahoma legislators are debating whether to follow the lead of Mississippi by adopting a phonics-based reading curriculum and requiring the retention of 3rd graders who can’t pass the readin…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
John Thompson: Oklahoma Wants to Copy the "Mississippi Miracle" by Retaining 3rd Graders dianeravitch.net/2025/11/12/o...
California Charter Schools Heading for 2026 tultican.com/2025/11/11/c...
California Charter Schools Heading for 2026
By Thomas Ultican 11/11/2025 There was another major effort in Sacramento to reform charter school laws in order to head off another A3 disaster. In May 2019, the San Diego District Attorney charge…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
California Charter Schools Heading for 2026 tultican.com/2025/11/11/c...
New Hampshire: Voucher Program Grows Beyond Its Budget; 80% of Vouchers Used by Students Enrolled in Private Schools dianeravitch.net/2025/11/11/n...
New Hampshire: Voucher Program Grows Beyond Its Budget; 80% of Vouchers Used by Students Enrolled in Private Schools
Garry Rayno of InDepth NH reports on the status of the New Hampshire voucher program, called Education Freedom Accounts. The program is growing beyond the budgeted amount, and the number of student…
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November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New Hampshire: Voucher Program Grows Beyond Its Budget; 80% of Vouchers Used by Students Enrolled in Private Schools dianeravitch.net/2025/11/11/n...
November 9, 2025
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November 9, 2025
In order to pressure the Democrats to cave to Trump’s demands that they sign on to the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government, the administration has been refusing to fund the...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
November 9, 2025
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Chalkbeat: Union-Backed Candidates Sweep Denver School Board, Beating Big-Money Charter Supporters dianeravitch.net/2025/11/10/c...
Chalkbeat: Union-Backed Candidates Sweep Denver School Board, Beating Big-Money Charter Supporters
The big money promoting privatization in Denver tried to capture the Denver school board, but was defeated by candidates endorsed by the Denver Classroom Teachers Association. Chalkbeat Colorado re…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Chalkbeat: Union-Backed Candidates Sweep Denver School Board, Beating Big-Money Charter Supporters dianeravitch.net/2025/11/10/c...
What are Oklahoma renters to do about water, mold or raccoons? Good luck if it’s fighting a landlord oklahomavoice.com/2025/11/10/w...
What are Oklahoma renters to do about water, mold or raccoons? Good luck if it's fighting a landlord • Oklahoma Voice
I had no idea that state laws here give the upper hand to bad landlords and give tenants struggling with catastrophic issues — think raccoon infestations, flooding and mold — little recourse if repair...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
What are Oklahoma renters to do about water, mold or raccoons? Good luck if it’s fighting a landlord oklahomavoice.com/2025/11/10/w...
Watch PBS's "The Rise of RFK Jr." Learn Who He Is. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/09/w...
Watch PBS’s “The Rise of RFK Jr.” Learn Who He Is.
Last night I watched a PBS Frontline documentary: The Rise of RFK Jr. This documentary is fascinating. It shows young Bobby’s idyllic childhood at the family’s sprawling, luxurious comp…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Watch PBS's "The Rise of RFK Jr." Learn Who He Is. dianeravitch.net/2025/11/09/w...
Oklahoma Watch: Tulsa’s Blue Team builds trust, breaks cycle of chronic homelessness tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...
Oklahoma Watch: Tulsa’s Blue Team builds trust, breaks cycle of chronic homelessness
The Day Center's Blue Team is the first in the nation rooted in a method of outreach, shelter and treatment for people who are homeless, have a mental health disorder and show signs they don't know th...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Oklahoma Watch: Tulsa’s Blue Team builds trust, breaks cycle of chronic homelessness tulsaworld.com/news/local/a...
Oklahoma Highway Patrol arrests 73 during latest I-40 immigration sting oklahomavoice.com/2025/11/04/o...
Oklahoma Highway Patrol arrests 73 during latest I-40 immigration sting • Oklahoma Voice
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol, partnered with federal immigration forces, arrested 73 people during a second operation targeting drivers without legal immigration status.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Oklahoma Highway Patrol arrests 73 during latest I-40 immigration sting oklahomavoice.com/2025/11/04/o...
Federal Judge Permanently Blocks Federal Troops in Portland, Oregon dianeravitch.net/2025/11/07/f...
Federal Judge Permanently Blocks Federal Troops in Portland, Oregon
Judge Karin Immergut was appointed to the bench by President Trump in 2019. But unlike Trump’s appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Immergut puts the Constitution and the law above par…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Federal Judge Permanently Blocks Federal Troops in Portland, Oregon dianeravitch.net/2025/11/07/f...
SCOTUS Pauses Order to Fully Fund SNAP dianeravitch.net/2025/11/07/s...
SCOTUS Pauses Order to Fully Fund SNAP
Reuters reported that the U.S. Supreme Court put a hold on a lower court’s order to fully fund the SNAP program, which provides food for low-income people. About one of every eight Americans …
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
SCOTUS Pauses Order to Fully Fund SNAP dianeravitch.net/2025/11/07/s...
Justice J. Michael Luttig Denounces SCOTUS for Failing to Condemn Death Threats to Judges dianeravitch.net/2025/11/07/j...
Justice J. Michael Luttig Denounces SCOTUS for Failing to Condemn Death Threats to Judges
Judge J. Michael Luttig was appointed to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush, where he served until 2006. He was a prominent conservative jurist, but was repul…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Justice J. Michael Luttig Denounces SCOTUS for Failing to Condemn Death Threats to Judges dianeravitch.net/2025/11/07/j...
Podcaster Debra Shushan Interviews Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum About Her Support for Zohran Mamdani dianeravitch.net/2025/11/06/p...
Podcaster Debra Shushan Interviews Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum About Her Support for Zohran Mamdani
I love and admire Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum. She recently retired as the leader of the nation’s largest LGBT synagogue. She looks 16, but she’s not. She is one of the wisest people I know.…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Podcaster Debra Shushan Interviews Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum About Her Support for Zohran Mamdani dianeravitch.net/2025/11/06/p...
Pennsylvania: Democrats Sweep School Board Races, Ousting Extremists dianeravitch.net/2025/11/06/p...
Pennsylvania: Democrats Sweep School Board Races, Ousting Extremists
In Pennsylvania school board races, extremists who provoked battles over culture war issues were ousted. One winner said that parents looked forward to the days when school board meetings were R…
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November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Pennsylvania: Democrats Sweep School Board Races, Ousting Extremists dianeravitch.net/2025/11/06/p...
Gov. Stitt’s latest choice for Oklahoma education secretary is impressive oklahomavoice.com/2025/11/04/g...
Gov. Stitt’s latest choice for Oklahoma education secretary is impressive • Oklahoma Voice
I’m hopeful that Gov. Kevin Stitt’s selection of Oklahoma’s next Secretary of Education will be transformational.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Gov. Stitt’s latest choice for Oklahoma education secretary is impressive oklahomavoice.com/2025/11/04/g...
Trump Is Renovating the Lincoln Bathroom dianeravitch.net/2025/11/03/t...
Trump Is Renovating the Lincoln Bathroom
The burden of office must rest heavily on Trump’s shoulders. But foreign policy and economic policy are not what captures his imagination and passion. He loves decorating and renovating. The …
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November 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Trump Is Renovating the Lincoln Bathroom dianeravitch.net/2025/11/03/t...
Former Corrections Director Approved Million Dollar Deal With AI Company, Then Went to Work For Them oklahomawatch.org/2025/10/31/h...
Former Corrections Director Approved Million Dollar Deal With AI Company, Then Went to Work For Them - Oklahoma Watch
Steven Harpe left his post as director of the Department of Corrections to take a job at LeoTech, an AI company awarded a million-dollar contract by the department months earlier.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Former Corrections Director Approved Million Dollar Deal With AI Company, Then Went to Work For Them oklahomawatch.org/2025/10/31/h...
The Most Annoying Story of the Month About Schools dianeravitch.net/2025/11/03/t...
The Most Annoying Story of the Month About Schools
Every so often, I read a story about education that is truly annoying. The most recent one is in The Atlantic. It was written by Idrees Kahloon, a staff writer at the magazine. It is titled “…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Most Annoying Story of the Month About Schools dianeravitch.net/2025/11/03/t...
November 1, 2025
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November 1, 2025
Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Lisa Kelly: 50 years ago we transformed education. Now, that progress is in jeopardy tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...
Lisa Kelly: 50 years ago we transformed education. Now, that progress is in jeopardy
Systems meant to protect our most vulnerable neighbors are being dismantled piece by piece. Decades of progress are on the line.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Lisa Kelly: 50 years ago we transformed education. Now, that progress is in jeopardy tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...