Online pub day! I examine how parents' preferences for schools and neighborhoods are intertwined, rather than independent, and talk about what those "package deal" preferences imply for racial segregation and inequality.

doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

"In a May 21...recording..., Provost Robin Forman said that when Tulane leadership met with elected officials in April, they were pressed as to why “‘Tulane has taken a stand on the chemical industry as harming communities’,” and this “left people feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable.” "

eric has excellent news in the quoted post! progress on killing the trans healthcare coverage bans in the GOP budget. but pressure still needs to be applied!

the link below contains call/email templates with reference to the legislative mechanism senators could use to kill this part of the bill.🧵

Chilling report from Brown University.

Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.

Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

There are two transgender girls in the state of Maine competing in girls’ sports.

There are now SIX federal agencies investigating the state.

Here is our latest @propublica.org story with @bangordailynews.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/article/main...

I’m struck by the Trump administration’s attempt to redefine equality as discrimination against white people. This is a deeply racist idea that *equal outcomes* must be unfair, assuming white people are naturally at the top of the hierarchy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

This isn’t about fixing bureaucracy in Washington. This is about defunding your local public school.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

And making the public school experience sh*ttier, especially for kids with disabilities and kids from low-income families and families of color. So that more families will opt for private schools or homeschooling. And funnel more public education funding into private companies' hands.

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

Like many others who’ve given birth, I bled profusely afterward (enough that they had transfusion blood rushed to my room, though they didn’t use it in the end) & was given misoprostol, tho my understanding of those events is poor

Terrifying & enraging

From www.businessinsider.com/abortion-med...

they are segregationists, attacking a monument to the civil rights heroes that destroyed segregation

Articles like this, where Harvard is centered as the soul of US higher ed by someone who "coincidentally" graduated from Harvard, is exactly why we did all that research looking at where news article authors go to college 1/

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...