Peter C. Cook

Unapologetic Education Reformer • New Orleanian • Progressive (unwilling to let crazies define it) • Democrat • DMs open • #FreeUkraine

[Kendall G Pace @KendallGPace]

They need to close and consolidate more schools in Austin. Can anyone do math these days? 🤦‍♀️

Shrinking enrollment and reduced revenue sucks. But this response to declining enrollment seems nonsensical. 🤷‍♀️

“The program is designed to train parents, teachers, and administrators to fight school closures in communities “getting hit the hardest.” “Ten schools in this city alone in the school district are shutting down, but it is happening all over this state,” Hinojosa said.”

[Kenwardjr @Kenwardjr]

Must-read new story from @propublica

https://t.co/OirioDoW7l

[Michael Bennet @SenatorBennet]

A person with zero intelligence experience who manufactured absurd investigations against the president's political opponents has no business leading our Intelligence Community.

Handing Bill Pulte the keys to our deepest, most sensitive national security secrets is reckless and dangerous. I will do everything in my power to fight his appointment.

https://t.co/8gEBhCs9Zq

[Michael Petrilli @MichaelPetrilli]

Grade inflation is finally getting the attention it deserves, including at Harvard, U-Cal and elsewhere. It's overdue, as grading standards have completely collapsed.

My son graduated from Walt Whitman in Bethesda, MD yesterday. Wanna guess how many seniors had perfect straight A's all four years? Out of 500 graduates?

86!

[Jen Robichaux @JenRobichaux]

If you're looking for in depth reporting on AISD, it doesn't get better than @KendallGPace - who's just published another substack covering Austin ISD's academic decline and fiscal collapse.

Grab a drink, a comfy chair, and settle in for a closer look.
https://t.co/rC1ssUy84x

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Before Brexit, there were about 300K net migrants a year, mostly from the EU.

After Brexit, immigration shot up to 900K, and EU migration was negative.

It’s amazing how stupid Brexit was from every possible perspective.

Populism is a low IQ movement.

[Michael @TheMG3D]

America is the laughing stock of the world, what the actual fuck

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the kind of things the Republican Super Majority in Missouri has decided to cut after blowing a $600M hole in the budget by getting rid of the Capital Gains tax for the top 1%. They decided to spend another $10M in an already $50M school voucher program for private school attendees. But, yeah, cut free books for needy kids. This is absolutely monstrous (1/2)

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Insane story from NYC:

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

Maybe everyone who was into this discourse has just left the platform, but it strikes me that this is the rare case in which the discourse has actually improved in recent years: nobody has any tolerance for this sort of casual, woke racism from surplus elites anymore.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The mechanism is specific and worth reading carefully.

Able-bodied adults without dependents must now document 80 hours per month of work, training, or volunteering to maintain SNAP. Job searching - actively looking for work - does not count. Miss the threshold over any three-month period: ineligible for three years.

The exemption that previously protected former foster youth from this time limit has been eliminated. A population already more likely to face housing instability, academic disruption, and unemployment now runs the same clock as everyone else.

The average SNAP benefit is $6 per day. That is what this policy fight costs at the individual level.

The bill that built this requirement cut $187 billion from SNAP in the same legislation that extended tax cuts for corporations and wealthier Americans. That contrast is in the record.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Almost bought a new Porsche today. We got 95% of the deal done but couldn’t agree on a price, exact model, color or accessories.

[Chalkbeat @Chalkbeat]

The new law is an unprecedented effort to seize local control of the state’s largest public school district through a nine-person oversight board appointed by Tennessee’s top three Republicans, including the governor. https://t.co/u8rM907RyK

[ProPublica @propublica]

A new report determined that Gov. Jeff Landry’s proposed increase in prison spending would come at the expense of $165 million in education funding, including $40 million for state colleges and universities and $125 million for K-12 education.
https://t.co/eBLQujyl54

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Economists estimate that if Europeans used AC as much as Americans do, it would save up to 100,000 European lives EVERY YEAR.

But I guess saving face on Elon Musk's social media app is more important than 100,000 lives.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

There’s no better picker upper than a video of Tommy Tuberville tumbling 🤣😂

[Vladimir Kogan @vkoganpolisci]

Must-read by @MichaelTHartney! In all of the debate about whether Dems have vs. have not lost their advantage on education, no one has noticed how much Dem voters have come to love teachers' unions.

https://t.co/Y3B17SRNCt

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

The societal trend I’m most worried about these days is also one receiving very little attention from policymakers, most of whom would rather talk about anything other than schools.

graphic via @nytimes

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

It’s like she was created in a lab at Columbia.