Hmmm... many of these are related service providers who provide dedicated minutes to children with IEPs in public schools under the IDEA. What is the implication for special education and educational access for children with disabilities, under an already gutted IDEA compliance regime?

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

FYI this is net of an almost 50 percent price hike plus the usual increased cost of family coverage.

My partner's employer added a $90/mo employed spouse penalty (on top of another $200/mo hike) for employees with working spouses who enroll in his (rather than spouse's) plan. It penalizes dual career couples and those with preexisting conditions who need decent coverage. It is a healthcare company.

NC - Food and Nutrition Services
NH - Food Stamps
UT - Food Stamps
VT - 3SquareVermont
WA - Basic Food
WI - FoodShare
Source: USDA State Options Report 2018

DE - Food Supplement Program
FL - Food Assistance Program
GA - Food Stamps Program
ID - Food Stamps
IL - Link EBT
IA - Food Assistance
KS - Food Assistance Program
ME - Food Supplement Program
MD - Food Supplement Program
MI - Food Assistance Program
MO - Food Stamp Program

Thank you for the shoutout, Jen!

LMM framing is that parents will choose schools for their children. That is absolutely false. Private schools will choose their kids, based on criteria that would mangle your brain.

Trust me, I've read hundreds of private school applications. Mind blowing stuff.

100 percent. And they explicitly exclude children they believe are neurodivergent or have any type of disability.
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Congratulations!!

The monitor or the espresso? ;-)

And private schools can (and do) refuse to educated disabled or neurodivergent children

Sharing an ungated version of a paper I recently published on private school early childhood admissions urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Thank you so much for the shoutout @katemcnamara.bsky.social!

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading!!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

While elite private schools do not (yet) require biomedical specimens as part of their assessments, their early childhood admissions practices—which essentialize merit and present some children’s bodies and minds as more or less intrinsically wired for success—share some concerning similarities.

13 years ago @npr.org ran a satire for April Fools announcing that an elite NYC preschool had begun to require prenatal DNA samples as part of its application process. Instead of backlash, the piece inspired affluent parents to inquire from their obstetricians where they could obtain such samples.