**OUT TODAY** or 24 Feb, depending on where you live: THE NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TEACHER EDUCATION: THE ENTERPRISE NARRATIVE AND THE SHADOW STATE by Lauren G. Warwick Mansell & me - Feeling very grateful for the endorsements of Chris Lubienski & #MichaelApple.

My wife is googling Gavin Newsom

What do you get when you put pseudo-historian David Barton, admitted propagandist Dennis Prager, and the head of the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025) in a room together? The State Task Force to rewrite Oklahoma's history standards. rawstory.com/ryan-walters-o… #edpolitics

#PrivateSchool Enrollment Is on the Rise. What’s Going On? CEEP Director Chris Lubienski weighs in. #publiceducation #edpolicy edweek.org/leadership/pri…

Evidence & Policy is pleased to invite abstracts for a Special Issue on Research (Mis)use and Mis/Disinformation in and around Education: Causes, Consequences and Remedies. Guest Edited by Joel Malin & Chris Lubienski Deadline for abstracts: 30 September evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2024/06/17/evi…

Now in American Educational Research Journal: “How Do Socioeconomic Differences Among Low-Income and Racially Minoritized Students Shape Their Engagement and Access in School Choice Systems?” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00…

#HigherEducation

"The state leg has heard only 1 bill in last 10 years that would increase regulation of #HomeSchooling. SB 255 would combine & expand existing state funding programs... But home education advocates expressed concern over the accompanying state oversight." chalkbeat.org/indiana/2024/0…

That time JD Vance auditioned for the Fox News anchor job.

Fun fact: Indiana’s Voucher Program makes up about 1.9% of the General Fund budget and none of the money is accounted for by our elected officials. It is part of Tuition Support and would be the 5th largest appropriation in the budget on its own. Why no #accountability?

Here’s another fact about Indiana’s voucher program. Its academic results have been horrific CEEP

Not a great night for Moms for Liberty candidates in Florida. Incumbents beat DeSantis-backed candidates in Florida school board races. #Edpolitics #edchat apnews.com/article/florid…

ajc.com/education/get-… Data from recently enacted state programs show the typical students using vouchers never attended public schools as they were already in a private school, home-schooled or enrolling in a private kindergarten.

How are the next generation of the global economic elite formed? Karen Lillie & I have been following the trajectories taken by young people who attended an elite international school for this purpose...was it successful? theconversation.com/who-are-the-gl…

Aren't taxpayers also effectively funding politicized organizations like AEI? Donations to those organizations are often deducted from tax revenue.

Despite what #SchoolChoice advocates say/said, it should now be clear that #SchoolVouchers were never about: *opportunities for poor kids *student learning *cost savings for taxpayers Taxpayer cost jumped from $15.5 million to more than $300 million indystar.com/story/news/inv…

Now, over 2/3rds of #SchoolVoucher recipients in Indiana never attended public school... quite different than original promises for the program: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08… Infographic: Students who never attended - infogram.com/students-who-n…

Senator supporting #SchoolVouchers surprised when he finds out there is little accountability to the state. Voucher Dilemma Part 2: Unraveling impact of school choice program on education in Indiana indystar.com/story/news/inv… via IndyStar

Interested in comparing Indiana’s funding of schools over time? Given enrollment fluctuations complicate things, one way to compare apples to apples is to just divide the total # of students funded into the budgeted amount and compare to inflation. Here is 2009-10 to Oct of ’23: