October | 2025 | janresseger
7 posts published by janresseger during October 2025| janresseger
Many Ohio communities have a serious problem with rapidly rising local property taxes to fund public schools, libraries, parks, and other public services. The legislature has aggressively set out to address this problem that arises from growing property values and a school funding system that includes a nearly fifty-year-old property tax freeze law that is […]| janresseger
At the beginning of October, the Trump administration offered nine universities the opportunity to sign a compact agreeing to adhere to a list of requirements in order to receive preferential treatment for future federal research grants. The requirements included asking them to agree not to consider sex, ethnicity, race, nationality, political views, sexual orientation, gender […]| janresseger
Beginning last Friday, Russell Vought, the director of the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget, pushed the Trump administration to launch an enormous wave of permanent layoffs across the federal government. Yesterday afternoon, a U.S. Federal District Judge temporarily stayed this week’s mass termination by the Trump administration of key federal employees. The NY […]| janresseger
What will the collapse of Congressional debate about the Fiscal Year 2026 federal budget and the subsequent federal government shutdown mean for the nation’s public schools? The shutdown fee…| janresseger
On Tuesday, July 4, 2023, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law a state budget that is simultaneously a triumph and a tragedy for the more than 1.6 million students in the state’s public …| janresseger
In his new book, The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, The Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education, Yale University law professor, Justin Driver explores the history of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions on affirmative action from the 1978 decision in Bakke, that permitted universities to consider race in their admissions policies, to the […]| janresseger
The Trump administration continued last week to hound the nation’s universities, demanding that they cancel all diversity programs designed to include and welcome students from historically marginalized and excluded groups on the theory that such programs violate the civil rights of the white majority. The NY Times‘ Michael Bender explains: “The White House on Wednesday […]| janresseger
Before he retired in 2023 as the director of the Education Law Center, David Sciarra released a report defining the widely held principles of adequate and equitably distributed public school funding, as defined by the constitutions of the states: “Today, there is broad agreement that the education guaranteed by state constitutions must be one that […]| janresseger
On September 8th, Education Week‘s Matthew Stone and Brooke Schultz noticed that the Trump administration wasn’t any longer merely threatening school districts. The Department of Education had begun, “inserting itself more forcefully into state and local school affairs, particularly, to fight what it’s characterized as a leftward lurch in K-12 education…. It withheld nearly $7 […]| janresseger
Why does it matter for the nation’s public schools that the Trump administration is working hard to limit enforcement of the 1968 Fair Housing Act? Richard Rothstein addressed that question i…| janresseger
Article VI, Section 2 of the Ohio Constitution defines the state’s responsibility to provide a strong system of public education as an essential provision of the social contract: “The General Assembly shall make such provisions, by taxation, or otherwise, as, with the income arising from the school trust fund, will secure a thorough and efficient […]| janresseger
The Associated Press’s Collin Binkley and Michael Casey capture, the significance of last week’s decision by Massachusetts U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs to prohibit the Tr…| janresseger
The Trump administration has rescinded an important federal education guidance document released in 2015 by the Obama administration to protect the right to English language instruction for all pub…| 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 acros…| 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
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
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
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
