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Professor @PrincetonSPIA & Sociology; Director, Education Research Section. Once & future eduwonkette

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📢New Working Paper📢 @Princeton doctoral student @jasonfontana & I provide new causal evidence that ESA implementation led IA private schools to increase tuition. When eligibility was universal (K), private schs increased prices 21-25%, compared w 10-16% in grades w partial elig
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If you think teachers can maintain even 3 feet in an early elementary classroom, all while providing excellent instruction, as well as academic, emotional, and social support... ...you've never taught.
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This headline is powerful evidence that we desperately need a time-out to ask WHAT ARE WE DOING? AND WHY?
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The Project 2025 proposal to eliminate Head Start deserves more attention and ire.
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Because they’re women.
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Being a professor is a cake walk compared to the day-to-day exertion & exhaustion of K12 teaching.
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The one thing non-teachers simply do not and cannot grasp is how MENTALLY EXHAUSTING IT IS TO TEACH ALL DAY. There are very, very few jobs that require the constant mental attention that teaching does. I'd love to see all the people criticizing teachers to teach for a week.
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Structuring K-12 English Language Arts around reading 700-word passages and responding to multiple-choice questions has led us here. Said every K12 teacher for the last 25 years.
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I Don’t Know Why Everyone’s in Denial About College Students Who Can’t Do the Reading

These kids aren’t lazy. We’re failing them.

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Want to start a NC private school that accepts vouchers? All it takes👇 💸Accreditation is optional 💸Only the highest ranking official needs a background check 💸No HS degree? No problem. You can still be the teacher of record What could possibly go wrong?
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2. Meet Mitchener University Academy, which claimed twice as many vouchers as kids in 22 & offers both on-site & online classes. Located in a strip mall, it sits btw a unisex salon & a barber shop. 72 students are enrolled in this school.
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4 in 5 K12 parents are satisfied w public schools, maintaining the same level of satisfaction as 20 years ago. This is true for both Democrats & Republicans. (In fact, Democratic K12 parents now more satisfied) The satisfaction dip is coming from Republicans *without K12 kids*
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Parental satisfaction with their kids’ school took a dip during 2020-2021 but has rebounded — national perceptions kept trending downward.
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FLs $8K vouchers led school to increase tuition to $10-12K “Instead of paying $6,000 per child, families at the sch who are St. Paul parish members will now be charged $10,000 per child. Nonmembers will be charged $12,000 per child, instead of $7,000.”
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Florida’s new voucher law allows private schools to boost revenue

At one St. Petersburg Catholic school, an infusion of public money means parents will pay less while the school collects more.

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I guess I missed that rewrite of the Hippocratic Oath: first, do no harm to late capitalism
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27.4% positivity for NYC kids 5-17 It is reckless to reopen NYC schools without baseline testing for all staff & kids.
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Education policy in red states is now driven by an oligarch revolution, not a parent revolution.
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Political donations are driving school privatization. Case in point: North Carolina, which just enacted a controversial and costly expansion of private school vouchers basically because a conservative billionaire donor wanted them to
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No better time than the present to reinstate NYC schools' mask mandate. Data via @safeschoolsny :
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When I highlight child cases, a common rejoinder is, "But what about hospitalizations?" The implication is that if child hospitalizations skyrocketed, it would be time to get serious That has come to pass Now I hear, "But that's not *so many* kids." How many kids is enough?
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NYC school-aged kids' cases doubled in the last 2 days 🛑This has never happened before in NYC data 🛑This is consistent with Omicron growth patterns Policymakers: Please act quickly People: I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news; pls share as @NYCMayor quick action unlikely
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The framing of kids being "trapped" in failing public schools doesn't hold up when 60-70% of voucher users never attended public schools.
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This is what completely and utterly failing NYC kids looks like: 24,381 5-17 year olds last week.
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@nhannahjones Teachers are not only advocating for themselves Remote bc schools haven't implemented mitigation protocols to keep students & their families safe is not the same as pushing remote when those are in place 👉high-quality masks 👉HEPA filters 👉universal testing 👉vax mandates
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If you read one thing today, I hope it will be the letter that ⁦ @TeacherArthurG ⁩’s Assistant Principal put in his file this week.
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Florida & Texas voucher bills make explicit that private schools *accepting public money* don’t have to provide IEP mandated services to kids with disabilities This should be front-page news
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Rolling out school reopening policy like a suspense novel is a bad look for public education.
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Prediction: test optional will give affluent kids an even larger admissions advantage High scores are harder to buy than admission to elite HS that inflates grades, consultants who package apps & essays, & impressive extracurriculars
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Columbia first Ivy to go permanently test-optional

Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science will be test-optional for all applicants, Columbia Undergraduate Admissions announced earlier Wednesday. Columbia is the first...

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Adams: schools are open, in a Covid storm or a snowstorm, to serve our most vulnerable kids *The least poor* & *most White* NYC districts had highest attendance on Fri, Jan 7 Families deserve access to emergency childcare, but let's be honest abt what parts of NYC are using it
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Three people —billionaires Koch, DeVos, and Yass—are rewriting education policy in GOP-led states, tilting the playing field to favor the interests of the advantaged over everyone else.
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REVEALED: Secret recording shows pressure on Republican lawmakers to vote for school vouchers
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NYC kid & teacher cases exploded in Jan. I'm sad & horrified to report: * Kids 5-17, based on NYS Lab-Reported data: 20655 to 37216 cases: 80% increase * NYCDOE Staff (NYS data): 2714 to 5757 cases: 112% increase @NYCMayor @NYGovCuomo @DrJayVarma @nycpa
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Notice that many states subsidizing private school tuition for affluent families via ESAs have shamefully high child poverty rates. There are far better uses of your state's general fund than writing checks to the already fortunate.
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"Adults across the political spectrum (85% D; 67% R) feel improving public schools is a better use of public funds than providing families with vouchers or education savings accounts," per @mpolikoff & colleagues' new report.
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Our new report on potentially contentious issues in the curriculum, out today! The largest and most detailed survey ever on these topics. This report covers an array of race-, LGBTQ-, and sex education-related scenarios in schools, going far deeper than any previous study ...
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Whose pandemic stories get told by @nytimes ? 🧐 16% of NYC PS kids attend school in Manhattan 🧐63% of the 8 quoted parents/students/teachers are associated w/ a Manhattan school 🧐~30% kids absent on M-Th last wk 🧐0% of quoted were absent
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New Yorkers Reflect on a Stressful Week Back at School Amid Omicron Wave (Published 2022)

Two dozen interviews with parents, educators and students revealed a range of opinions about whether schools should remain open. But most said the return to classrooms had been bumpy.

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Yes, you read that correctly. 32%.
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This kills me. One fall, I taught in the Stern bldg behind Gould. 50 kids, 48 chairs. I asked. Didn’t get fixed. I brought two IKEA stools to class. The tech worked 50% of the time. I asked. Didn’t get fixed. We had 2 class jokes that semester. I should have asked for a wall.
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This is Gould plaza. This is @nyuniversity response to yesterday’s protests. I am old enough to remember when American intellectual and political leaders called for tearing down walls. Meanwhile, no word on next steps, town halls, or, you know, discourse. Just arrests and walls.
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“Amazingly, Project 2025 calls for ‘phasing’ Title I out of existence and turning the responsibility over to the states.” In addition to gutting Head Start & cutting school meals, they want to end Title I - the primary federal govt investment in educating poor kids.
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“The Trump team’s radical plan to gut American public education Not surprisingly, low-income children of color are among the chief targets.”
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What's happening to kids in the South is unconscionable. In 2 weeks (8/5-19): 🛑 1 in 55 Mississippi kids infected 🛑 1 in 83 Florida 🛑 1 in 100 Louisiana & Tennessee 🛑 1 in 111 South Carolina & Arkansas 🛑 1 in 125 Kentucky 🛑 1 in 167 Georgia Fed govt response needed!
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This school year, there was exactly 1 secular school in Iowa where your kindergartener could attend with a $7635 voucher.
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They don’t want our kids in their private schools. They show it by raising tuition over the price of a voucher. These schools are given taxpayer money to discriminate against poor kids. We told you this would happen.
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It's almost like stirring up dissatisfaction with public schools among those who don't utilize them is a calculated electoral strategy.
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For the 60-70% of kids receiving vouchers who never attended public schools, there are no public $ savings to the state—only new costs. The savings go to families who could already afford private school and the churches that previously subsidized these schools.
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@eduwonkette_jen $7,800 ESAs in states where $15,000/student spent in public schools Massive savings
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23 days since NYC Parents - largely BIPOC - have been striking for safe schools, and not a trace amount of the coverage that White "Keep Schools Open" parents received last year. Looks like education journalism has its very own Gabby Petito effect.
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Few NYC charters are unionized. If "the powerful teachers union" is the source of all reopening challenges, what factors explain: 🤔 why 65% of charters decided to stay fully remote? 🤔 why only 8% of charters have >50%+ students in person?
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NYC stopped testing school staff with no mention of a policy shift. In natl studies, school staff have odds of infection similar to health care workers. When confronting a surge, we need to *expand* testing to protect staff and their students, not reduce it.
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You're looking at the pandemic record week for NYC school-aged kids. History will judge policymakers who sacrificed children's health on the altar of the economy & their own political ambition, and those complicit.
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One of the easiest ways to mislead with data is by showing percent change. For example, the 88% increase represents just 1.7% of all staff in 2000, and the 37% increase represents 2.5%. Meanwhile, 51.5% of all staff were teachers in 2000. 1/
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The ideological takeover is nearly complete. 1.2% of @Princeton 's undergraduate spring 2024 enrolled seats address oppression, decolonization, liberation, and social justice.
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How about the “Sonia Sotomayor School of Public and International Affairs?”
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The #PrincetonU Board of Trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the School of Public Policy and International Affairs and residential college.
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Pointing out that 137,000 kids with disabilities are in school choice programs isn't the flex you think it is. There are 7.5 million kids with disabilities nationally, so that's just 1.8%. The other 98.2% rely on public schools.
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@eduwonkette_jen School choice programs serve over 137,000 kids with special needs. It's true that private schools don't serve all students with disabilities, but definitely not as simple as "rejecting 13-19% of kids."
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Almost 1 in 5 voucher users in Indiana is from a family making $150K+.
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With Adderall trending, this graph makes me ask why we aren't adapting schools to fit kids instead of medicating kids to fit schools.
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It’s Clear the Lists time of year. I’ve never seen a doctor or a police officer fundraise for the basic materials needed to do their job. Nor should they. Why do we put teachers in this situation?
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The history of private schs serving as refuges from racial integration is well documented. Diverting public $ to private schs via vouchers is a branch growing from the same poisoned root. It's not an accident that this happened as White kids became the minority in public schs.
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Here is my humble prediction: Removing mitigations like masking will result in more high-risk families, who are disproportionately BIPOC, moving their kids to homeschooling or keeping their kids home until cases are at a much lower rate. Interested to hear others' thoughts.
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One general law governs higher ed commentary: the less one interacts with current university students, the more vocally one claims to understand them, and the quicker one is to condemn them.
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“A full 25 percent of children in New York City lived in poverty in 2022, the highest rate since 2015…It was a sharp reversal from 2021, when the expansion of the federal child tax credit program cut child poverty in New York City by 30 percent”
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A school voucher policy that subsidizes a state's wealthiest families at the same level as its poorest will not reduce inequality.
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There's a stark contrast between 1) establishing common schools where kids from diverse backgrounds learn together as democratic equals, and 2) using public funds to subsidize the affluent and maintain exclusionary schools
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I'm betting on students Our "adult" leaders have little to recommend them
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Wow. Students and allies are blocking the entrance of Chicago Public Schools HQ to protest unsafe learning conditions.
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“One parent purchased 39 Lego sets in 1 transaction totaling $4,200.” When a parent spends more than half the voucher on Legos & Arizona taxpayers let it happen, this kid will have some legitimate q’s about why adults stood on the sidelines while their future was compromised
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NEW: Legos became a subject of debate in Arizona’s private school voucher program after Superintendent Horne said no parents were being reimbursed for $500 Lego sets. New records show tax dollars bought 84 sets at $500+ over a 9 month period. @12news
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@NYCMayor 10K test kits in a city of 8.8M people Very slow clap.
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Twitter is raining hired men claiming that public schs are failing. Ritually chanting falsehoods about public schs is their job. Back in reality, American parents are satisfied with their kids’ public schools. The schoolhouse is not on fire, but give these bros’ pants a look.
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Where are your tax dollars going with vouchers? You can be a middle/high school teacher at NC's Mitchener University Academy, which claimed $327K in voucher $, with no degree. For your work, you'll be paid between 20-25K per year.
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2. Meet Mitchener University Academy, which claimed twice as many vouchers as kids in 22 & offers both on-site & online classes. Located in a strip mall, it sits btw a unisex salon & a barber shop. 72 students are enrolled in this school.
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When will @NYCMayor mention it?
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251,781 child cases knocks prior record of 211K out of the park. THIS IS NOT NORMAL
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Special moments at @PrincetonSPIA graduation: Dean @AmaneyJamal acknowledging parents who had kids during school in her speech, welcoming them on stage, & lifting up one of our graduates’ daughters so she could help hood her mom. This is what inclusion looks like. #SPIAproud
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Children are people, not property. They don't belong to their parents. They are individuals with inherent dignity and rights of their own. That fundamental truth is ignored by advocates of "parents' rights."
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Can anyone beat having a paper under first review for 7.5 months?
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Voucher laws use the Trojan horse of religious freedom to smuggle tax $ to private schs discriminating by disability, religious belief, & LGBTQ If you need to send your kid to a school that discriminates, for the love of all that’s holy, pay for it yourself
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Why are the segregationist origins of vouchers still relevant? Because they are not history DeAngelis DeVos et al reject the very idea of anti-discrimination law. If they didn’t, the laws for which they advocate would build in antidiscrimination by disability, religion, LGBTQ
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Though unreported, the recent surge in NYC's pediatric COVID hospitalizations has now matched or exceeded previous periods, except the peak of Omicron in Dec '21/Jan '22. Data via @safeschoolsny 's
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1. A voucher can only be used at private schools if the student has been accepted By giving high income NC families 90% of the voucher amt, those fams fill seats at better schools & poor kids end up in storefronts A portrait of 1 fly-by-night school paid for w NC tax$🧵
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@rweingarten By middle class, you mean the top income quintile, because that is who SALT benefits, both in lining their pockets and keeping lower-income families out of their school districts.
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Does a decent society observe a 10X increase in new NYC kids' hospitalizations in 2 wks & then willfully contort itself to explain it away or minimize it? Enough is enough.
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@jeffguhin Here is a tip for the editor: Please don't send these papers out for review.
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Last week, NYC schools broke its 21-22 SY record for student cases: 🛑Kids: 984, a 78% increase in 2 weeks 🛑Staff: 301, a 166% increase A horrible school winter is a policy choice, not an inevitability: ramp up testing & improve ventilation, starting w window-dependent schools.
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On Twitter, the Big Moral Issue of our day is kids wearing masks What should be mobilizing our attention: 3.6M kids pushed back into poverty with the end of Child Tax Credit
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Omicron spreads indoors 👉when folks are wearing low-quality😷 👉are periodically unmasked 👉& poor ventilation facilitates spread Sound like a school? NYCDOE kids/staff dramatically outpacing NYC Jan 4-14 More mitigation needed: better😷; improved🌬️; 🧪s & remote option
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My wish list of stories for journalists: I'd like to know what young women and men are taught about their role in society in the religious schools that public dollars now fund, and what (if anything) they do with sex education.
@GreyLadiesNYC
New York Times Education Pitchbot
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“I don’t want my kids getting indoctrinated at a public school,” Declares Fundie Christian Mom Whose Daughter Attends a Private Voucher School That Teaches Kids (During Math Class) Women Must Obey and Serve Their Husbands, and Gay People Climbed Out of Hell to Destroy the Earth
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We've seen this episode in every universal voucher state. "While voucher usage grew by 313%, enrollment at schools that accept vouchers grew by only 3.7%, to 20,142 students."
@Honesty4OhioEd
Honesty For Ohio Education
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Ohio spent nearly $1B on private school vouchers; Who did they benefit? Voucher spending increase mainly went to students already in private schools. by Eileen McClory
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Jen Jennings, PhD
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Another day, another 1-day pandemic record for NYC school-aged kids I've fresh out of cute, clever, snarky things to say about this abomination I'm just very, very angry about our collective failure to protect kids
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3 years
So much respect for NYC students leading the way. Enough is enough.
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Theo Demel
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3 years
Enough is enough. I will be leading my fellow students in a walkout on Tuesday. please do the same around the city. WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. #strike4safeschools #sickchildrencantlearn #RestoreRemote #SiSePuede
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By neglecting child poverty and blaming teachers for every social ill, we've made their jobs impossible. Adding insult to injury, we then ask them to simply "just breathe" through structural injustice. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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Jack Schneider
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Just heard a pitch for teachers to practice "meditative breathing" as a way of coping with work demands. It's a well-intended idea. But it completely ignores the underlying structural problem. Imagine Sisyphus, rolling his boulder up the mountain, working on his breathing.
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Here's the bottom line: If voucher results were really that stellar, supporters would be seeking out opportunities to showcase them. Instead, they fight every effort to evaluate students' outcomes.
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Josh Cowen
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There’s no accountability because #schoolvouchers lobbyists know as well as I do that their claims are wrong. Spreading these bills depends on forcing states to rely on industry-backed data. Since 2013, actual voucher results have been so bad, it’s a threat to new legislation.
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Alternatively, we could pay teachers more and subsidize their college educations.
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Lindsey Burke
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ROI for education majors is near-zero. States could help aspiring teachers tremendously by prioritizing subject-matter expertise over getting certification through an ed school.
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Iron Laws of Vouchers: they cost more than estimated & provide public less transparency about where $ are going “The Department of Education would not provide a breakdown of applications received by ZIP code, current school attendance or income.”
Iowa could pay millions more than budgeted to help families pay for private school

As of Friday, hundreds more Iowans than anticipated have applied for a new state-funded private school financial assistance program, potentially costing the state $11.2 million more than lawmakers...

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Jen Jennings, PhD
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Middle income families would like a word with @Heritage folks calling 149K “middle income.”
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Jen Jennings, PhD
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Two facts missing in headline news: 1) Pediatric Covid cases dramatically increased across the US from November forward. 2) NYC currently leads the country in pediatric case growth, as noted in the most recent American Academy of Pediatrics report. (See below.) 1/2
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The mantra "American schools are failing" has taken its toll on reality. Press those chanting it on the criteria for failure or the counterfactual, and you'll meet the blank stare of the lobotomized.
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Wisdom Theory
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A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
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A friendly reminder: US govt-provided tests are not free You paid taxes tax revenues are meant to address our common problems You just think tests are free because you live in the US And our govt is much better at providing services to corporations than to taxpayers
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Our first obligation to kids is protecting them from immediate harm.
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“There’s another reason why vouchers are so pernicious that is especially relevant during Pride Month: They blatantly and harmfully underwrite discrimination against members of the LGBTQ+ community.”
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School vouchers further anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination

School vouchers blatantly and harmfully underwrite discrimination against members of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Jen Jennings, PhD
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3 years
This is a pandemic stage I did not predict: #NYC will now provide families with *less information* when there’s a classroom *Covid case* than they do when there’s a *case of lice.*
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Sarah Allen
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🚨🚨🚨 Most NYC families aren’t yet aware the DOE won’t be informing them if there’s a covid+ student in their child’s class. (Only a school-wide note). Withholding this is dangerous & unethical. We inform every family in class when there’s LICE, but we won’t for covid. 🧵 1/
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To my knowledge, @NYCMayor has never mentioned it
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Hope is not a plan. Swagger, also, is not a plan. Please take this job seriously, @NYCMayor .
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580K kid cases last week (AAP) Given these #s , kids should have access to remote learning if parents conclude that's the best option for their family right now Where's all that "parents should decide" energy hiding?
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A humble hypothesis: when child poverty increases, kids eat more at school because they’re more food insecure at home.
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Jen Jennings, PhD
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“A full 25 percent of children in New York City lived in poverty in 2022, the highest rate since 2015…It was a sharp reversal from 2021, when the expansion of the federal child tax credit program cut child poverty in New York City by 30 percent”
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2. Meet Mitchener University Academy, which claimed twice as many vouchers as kids in 22 & offers both on-site & online classes. Located in a strip mall, it sits btw a unisex salon & a barber shop. 72 students are enrolled in this school.
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Failing to deliver on the basic safety measures we owe to educators is a cascading disgrace We've had ~2 yrs to get high-quality masks, adequate ventilation, accessible testing, & full & verified vaccination done What good are open schools with skeletal staffing? #DoYourJob
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@MarkLevineNYC Someone should at least be honest w the public: if you have a heart attack, pulmonary embolism, stroke, fracture, accident - your care will likely suffer because our hospitals are overwhelmed.
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Jen Jennings, PhD
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Kids' case rates in NYC are 10 times larger this week than in the same week of 2020 for kids 0-12, and 7 times larger for kids 13-17. In light of these data, let's evaluate the argument against offering families a remote schooling option this fall. 1/
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Guns are the leading cause of death for American children. Training kids to use firearms with taxpayer public ed $ is a dystopian, yet totally allowable, purchase with Arizona ESA funds.
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Vouchers not only subsidize families who can already afford private education, but also disproportionately benefit White families, who make up 65% of private school students vs. 47% of public school students.
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Jen Jennings, PhD
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It isn't 2020, but NYC ERs are nearly as full w COVID-like illness patients as '20 peak There isn't infinite surge capacity & people depend on ERs for other health emergencies Overwhelming them threatens all of us We elect a govt to deal w collective problems Where are they?
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Schools’ choice, not school choice
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