August | 2025 | janresseger
5 posts published by janresseger during August 2025| janresseger
Late last Thursday afternoon, the Associated Press’s Collin Binkley broke a story that brought relief and satisfaction to the school superintendents and members of elected school boards across the nation’s 13,000 public school districts: “A federal judge… struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s schools and … … Continue reading →| janresseger
Public institutions depend on public support, consistently provided and managed. Today at the state and federal levels, public funding for essential institutions has fallen to inadequate levels and become unpredictable. Public schools and key social services are suffering. Cuts in State Funding This past summer the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported: “Wyoming lawmakers … … Continue reading →| janresseger
The president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Lynn Pasquerella confronts President Trump’s attack on what he calls “diversity, equity and inclusion” at educational institutions: “(T)reating people differently is not always unjust, especially when doing so corrects a broader pattern of systemic injustice. Considering race and gender in the context of historic unjust … … Continue reading →| janresseger
What’s going on with the charter school sector now that traditional public schools are no longer troubled by the COVID plague and now that states—and even the federal government—are diverting more tax dollars to private school tuition vouchers? In a new publication, the Network for Public Education has launched the first in a three-part series … … Continue reading →| janresseger
On July 31st, K-12 Dive’s Kara Arundel reported some very good news: “The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a bipartisan spending bill for fiscal year 2026 (FY 26) th…| janresseger
Today’s post is an update. Yesterday this blog traced what has happened since the Trump administration refused to send $6.8 billion to U.S. public schools, money that had, in March, been approved by Congress in a continuing budget resolution and promised for delivery on July 1, the day that school districts regularly receive federal funding prior […]| janresseger
In late July, with the school year beginning in most places in about a month, there are few firm answers about whether school districts will ever be granted access to the almost $7 billion in federal funds suddenly denied, on July 1st, for services school districts are expected to provide. When the funds failed to […]| janresseger
In the last week of June, two important events happened almost simultaneously in Ohio: A district court in Columbus found the state’s EdChoice voucher program unconstitutional, and the state …| janresseger
On Tuesday morning, Diane Ravitch began her blog: “After the election, I confidently predicted that Trump would never be able to get rid of the U.S. Department of Education. To eliminate a Department required Congressional approval, and I was confident that Trump would never get that. He would need 60 votes, not 51, and he […]| janresseger
Last Thursday, July 10, 2025, a federal judge in New Hampshire protected the right to birthright citizenship for all babies born in the United States, a protection which had been threatened when President Trump, on February 20, released an executive order banning the right, which had been protected by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. […]| janresseger
Last week, this blog reported, “Chaos and Confusion at U.S. Department of Education May Threaten School Programming this Fall.” This week the situation intensified. “The U.S. Dep…| janresseger
The news is flooded with hysteria about something called “critical race theory.” I am being told that the anti-bias and anti-racism programs I participated in at work were terrifying ex…| janresseger
ALERT 2: When the massive tax and reconciliation bill passed and was signed into law, the bill established a different version of federal vouchers. ALERT, Friday, June 27, 2025 : Ranking member of…| janresseger
Most people count on their public schools to be solid, stable institutions. We know our school’s teachers and principal; we listen to our high school band or orchestra; and we cheer on our ch…| janresseger
On Wednesday, June 12th, the Ohio Senate passed its proposed budget for fiscal years 2026-2027. The senate-approved plan cuts taxes for the wealthiest citizens of our state; significantly under-fu…| janresseger
When it comes to President Trump’s threatened tariffs and his foreign policy demands, we have all been reading about the phrase coined by a Financial Times reporter: “Trump always chick…| janresseger
On Wednesday, April 23rd, President Donald Trump released an executive order banning the use of disparate impact when the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights investigates dispar…| janresseger
In a recent blog post, Diane Ravitch considered the phrase, “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and its acronym, DEI: “The ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion are generally and bro…| janresseger
Last Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the American Federation of Teachers and the American Sociological Association filed a lawsuit to challenge a confusing and frightening “Dear Colleague” …| janresseger
In a recent executive order, President Donald Trump dismantled programs for “diversity, equity and inclusion” at the federal level (see here and here). This week in Ohio, the state legislature is e…| janresseger
I find myself deeply troubled by President Trump’s attempt to erase diversity, equity, and inclusion from the federal government and all the public institutions, including public schools, to …| janresseger
The NY Times’ Dana Goldstein summarizes President Trump’s two executive orders last week that would shape federal K-12 public education policy: “On Wednesday evening, Mr. Trump si…| janresseger
Andy Brenner, the Chair of the Ohio Senate Education Committee, is once again pushing the Ohio Legislature to pass an old fashioned, test-and-punish school accountability bill, Senate Bill 295, in …| janresseger
In The New and Radical School Voucher Push Is Quietly Unwinding Two Centuries of of U.S. Education Tradition, Tulane University Professor Doug Harris reflects profoundly on the meaning of todayR…| janresseger
Ohio’s fiscal troubles certainly have been exacerbated by the hugely expensive universal EdChoice Expansion voucher expansion now projected to divert over a billion dollars in the current fis…| janresseger
