Sasha Pudelski

Advocacy Director, AASA. Co-Chair of Product of great public schools, Mom of two young girls.

[Sasha Pudelski @SPudelski]

Hoping to clarify something about my twitter account which is affiliated with AASA. I am on twitter to share reports, stories, information, perspectives that I think are valuable for superintendents to read. My re-tweets are not endorsements unless I specifically say so. Thanks.

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

Who killed federal educational accountability policies?

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

This isn’t about ads. It’s about a system that now has to earn every student it used to take for granted.

[Anand Sanwal @asanwal]

Public school k-12 enrollment will continue its decline

Projected to decline 7.6% vs its 2019 peak

(note: y-axis chart crime)

[AASA Advocacy @AASAdvocacy]

We're so back. Our #PEPTalk podcast this month features Amelia Vance, founder & prez of PIPC, about recent legislative developments on Capitol Hill related to student and child privacy bills and the role of AI in schools. Check it out: https://t.co/WSWpzUg8Cy

[Jill Barshay @jillbarshay]

Many public schools are losing students, but some are gaining. Great data crunching from @BurbioCalendar showing "winners" and "losers". My hot take: several unrelated trends happening at once. Declining birthrates. Shifting migration within US. Some exodus from public schools.

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

As a doctor who treated patients for decades, my top priority is protecting children and families. Multiple children have died or were hospitalized from measles, and South Carolina continues to face a growing outbreak. Two children have died in my state from whooping cough. All of this was preventable with safe and effective vaccines.

The vaccine schedule IS NOT A MANDATE. It’s a recommendation giving parents the power. Changing the pediatric vaccine schedule based on no scientific input on safety risks and little transparency will cause unnecessary fear for patients and doctors, and will make America sicker.

[Secretary Linda McMahon @EDSecMcMahon]

This is what making education great looks like.

[Emily Wilkins @emrwilkins]

The AI industry ramped up its presence in DC — and lawmakers are responding.

House Dems are launching a commission on AI to develop policy expertise, meet with stakeholders and work with companies on policy.

This is their way of staking a claim as leaders on the issue.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

Happy 10th birthday, ESSA! 🎉 10 years of declining achievement. The “Christmas miracle” that never came!

[Alexander Russo @alexanderrusso]

Now it's up to 30K

Over 30K Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent on Monday, school officials say https://t.co/V5gH51tTpe

[Secretary Linda McMahon @EDSecMcMahon]

Returning education to the states does not mean the end of federal support for education. It simply means the end of a centralized bureaucracy micromanaging what should be a state-led responsibility.

[Zach Schermele @ZachSchermele]

Scooplet -> How the shutdown got in the way of Trump's efforts to dismantle the Education Department...

The interagency agreements ED signed today to outsource work to State, Interior, HHS and Labor were all signed on Sept. 30, the day before funding then lapsed for 43 days.

After that, nearly everyone at ED (except for a few hundred folks) were furloughed. Without them, the efforts announced today seem to have stalled.

[Secretary Linda McMahon @EDSecMcMahon]

Just announced: @usedgov is partnering with four agencies to break up the federal education bureaucracy and move closer to fulfilling the @POTUS’ promise to return education to the states.

@USDOL @HHSGov @Interior @StateDept

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

Career pathways are hot. But if kids can’t read, they can’t build careers.

[Brian Jodice @afcpress]

Keeping eyes on North Carolina 👀 where a veto override to opt in for the federal scholarship tax credit could be in play today (this week).

The NCGA passed legislation to opt in but Governor Josh Stein said no.

More to come.

[Chad Aldeman @ChadAldeman]

{new} Do teachers make more money when they leave teaching? By and large, they do not.

The best way for teachers to make more money is usually to go into administration.

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

A child's future shouldn't be determined by their zip code. Our school choice scholarship in President Trump's Working Families Tax Cuts bill opens doors for students. We're calling on governors to opt-in and give families that opportunity.

[Zach Schermele @ZachSchermele]

NEW: Johnson says he hasn't "seen the specifics" of cuts to Education Dept. staff overseeing special ed programs.

First reported by @USATODAY this weekend: https://t.co/FlR07aU45h

[Zach Schermele @ZachSchermele]

NEW: These are all the Education Dept. offices that staffers and managers say have been impacted by layoffs since Friday, according to the union for the agency’s employees.

They include workers that supported HBCUs, tribal colleges, charter schools, civil rights reviews & more.

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

ON THE CALL — @russvought is telling House Republicans on a private conference call that the democrats demands are over the top and unreasonable. Vought says that the shutdown is to stall the administrations progress.

RIFS — layoffs — are coming in the next few days, Vought says.