The board of directors is off to pre-school tomorrow, but mostly they're excited about using their new lunch boxes. Meanwhile, local schools open up to students on Tuesday. So we'll just see what hits the fan around here. In the meantime, a lot of things are happening in a lot of places. Here's some reading.
Covid mask issues in school sparking violence
Anne Lutz Fernandez looks at some troubling trends in the pushback against masking rules in school.
New Mexico's discriminatory charter schools
Jessica Pollard in the Santa Fe New Mexican reports on a study discovering that some charters aren't even being subtle about keeping out students with special needs.
Bill would require school board representation at charters
Well, this proposed Pennsylvania bill will go nowhere, but it's a cool idea.
Is school voucher system in Los Angeles a done deal?
While we've been worrying about covid, the LAUSD board has been going full voucher. Carl J. Petersen has the story.
Bill Gates funding happy news at NYT
Public ed advocate Leonie Haimson lays out how Gates funds his own news pipeline.
What we know about masks, students, and covid spread.
Matt Barnum at Chalkbeat is one of the journalists I trust to do a good job of covering the facts with fairness and accuracy. Here's his piece looking at what we really know about masking.
Battles on the school board front
NPR/All Things Considered uses a board member in Indiana as a focus for a piece about how school boards are under siege right now.
What if...thoughts on education
Akil Bello, testing expert, offers a post about some dreams for education.
Pennridge schools pause diversity initiatives
In Pennsylvania, a state that doesn't even have a "CRT" gag law yet, a school board demonstrates its lack of guts.
This has been all over the place, but icymi, here's Ari Christine's entry that elevates the genre of "why I quit" teacher essays.
The Real Reason Kids Don't Like School
Arthur C Brooks in The Atlantic, arguing that hard work is not nearly as daunting as loneliness.
A school board will pay $1.3 million over trans student bathroom ban
Via the Associated Press, a Virginia district pays big for its trans student policy.
The War in Afghanistan is what happens when McKinsey types run everything
On his substack, Matt Stoller writes about something other than education, except, of course, McKinsey types also want to run education.
To protect democracy, defend public education
A Jacobin interview with Derek Black, author of Schoolhouse Burning
The effect of HBCU-trained teachers on students
A great episode of Have You Heard looks at the secret sauce of HBCU teacher training
Local control of schools--good or bad?
Nancy Flanagan contemplates a question that has new relevance right now.
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