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Indiana Considers Dissolving Public Schools

November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM

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AWFUL ➡️ Indiana Considers Dissolving Public Schools https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/01/07/indiana-considers-dissolving-public-schools/ @palan57.bsky.social in @forbes.com

if more than 50% of eligible students were enrolled outside, that public school district would be dissolved and replaced with a charter system governed by an unelected board.

Which School Districts Will Be Hardest Hit By Education Department’s Withholding Of Funds?

January 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM

Peter Greene

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Which School Districts Will Be Hardest Hit By Education Department’s Withholding Of Funds?https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/07/09/which-school-districts-will-be-hardest-hit-by-education-departments-withholding-of-funds/

The money had been budgeted and the programs approved by Congress, but the Trump administration declared that “decisions have not been made concerning submissions and awards” for the coming year.

July 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM

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A MUST READ & SHARE! @palan57.bsky.social in @forbes.com - Why Efforts To Break Down Separation Of Church And State In Schools Could Backfire https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2024/11/27/why-efforts-to-break-down-separation-of-church-and-state-in-schools-could-backfire/

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Arguments Mustered For Supreme Court Case Of Religious Charter School

November 29, 2024 at 5:13 PM

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🌐 Arguments Mustered For Supreme Court Case Of Religious Charter School

#Attorney General #Supreme Court

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/04/22/arguments-mustered-for-supreme-court-case-of-religious-charter-school/

Pro-choice organizations, red states, and religious groups are lining up against Oklahoma’s attorney general and a group of Constitutional scholars.

April 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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@palan57.bsky.social in @forbes.com - What Is In The Federal School Voucher Bill https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2024/12/11/what-is-in-the-federal-school-voucher-bill/ #SchoolVoucherScams

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Book Publishers Mount Legal Defense Of Libraries

December 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM

I Used To Like This One Podcast

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Tomorrow! Our next #MarchMadness episode takes Shawn and Aaron into the slums of Chicago for the 1993 thriller #JudgmentNight. Don't miss it!

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March 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM

I Used To Like This One Podcast

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If you haven't downloaded our next #MarchMadness episode about #JudgmentNight yet, what are you waiting for? Available now anywhere Pods are cast!

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March 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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🌐 Are Red States More Dependent On Federal Education Funding?

#Trump

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/01/24/are-red-states-more-dependent-on-federal-education-funding/

On the whole, dependence on federal funding is higher in states that went for Trump.

January 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM

Getting To The Theater

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Here's a clip from our fifth episode, Training Day!!!

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February 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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🌐 It’s National Library Week.

#Defense

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/04/08/book-publishers-mount-legal-defense-of-libraries/

It’s National Library Week.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2023/02/01/how-school-voucher-laws-protect-discrimination/?sh=248874332d9c

April 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Liane Yvkoff

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How School Voucher Laws Protect Discrimination.

The college sued, and the case made it to the Supreme Court.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2019/12/10/new-report-charter-fraud-and-waste-worse-than-we-thought/#3d4384a87a22

July 3, 2023 at 5:59 PM

Chris

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New Report: Charter Fraud And Waste Worse Than We Thought

"We have concluded that the practice of allowing unauthor...

Trump Administration Boosts Charter School Grant Program

December 23, 2024 at 8:59 AM

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🌐 Trump Administration Boosts Charter School Grant Program

#Trump #UPS

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/05/22/trump-administration-boosts-charter-school-grant-program/

The Charter Schools Program (CSP) is a long-running federal grant program aimed at helping the charter school industry with new start-ups and expansions.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2019/03/29/report-the-department-of-education-has-spent-1-billion-on-charter-school-waste-and-fraud/#4839d2b727b6

May 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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Report: The Department Of Education Has Spent $1 Billion ...

We are long past the point of charter schools being an ex...

February 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM

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And the fuckery begins…https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/01/07/indiana-considers-dissolving-public-schools/

January 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM

Network for Public Education

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@palan57.bsky.social in @forbes.com - What Is In The Federal School Voucher Bill https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2024/12/11/what-is-in-the-federal-school-voucher-bill/ #SchoolVoucherScams

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Coronavirus Forces Schooling From Home. Why That Will Be ...

December 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM

Susan Ostroff

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Working through challenges. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2020/03/19/coronavirus-forces-schooling-from-home-why-that-will-be-a-problem/

Whether it means remote instruction by the school distri...

November 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM

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A MUST READ & SHARE! @palan57.bsky.social in @forbes.com - Why Efforts To Break Down Separation Of Church And State In Schools Could Backfire https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2024/11/27/why-efforts-to-break-down-separation-of-church-and-state-in-schools-could-backfire/

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17 States Sue To End Protections For Students With Special Needs

November 29, 2024 at 5:13 PM

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🌐 Lessons For Donald Trump🍊 From The Common Core

#power #Trump

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/02/05/lessons-for-donald-trump-from-the-common-core/

February 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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🌐 17 States Sue To End Protections For Students With Special Needs

#Civil Rights #Rights

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/02/13/17-states-sue-to-end-protections-for-students-with-special-needs/

Section 504 of that act codified the civil rights of persons with disabilities. Sixteen states have joined Texas in a lawsuit asking the court to declare Section 504 unconstitutional.