Mark Webber (Jersey Jazzman) has posted an expert takedown of the data analysis in David Brooks' NY Times column this week. Brooks tried to repolish the far-right mythology of the glory of NCLB amid other inaccuracies. jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/debu...
A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill. by Megan Henry ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/09/o...
Driver condemns the Trump administration's mistakenly broad interpretation of the Students for Fair Admissions decision, “which quickly made clear that the federal government would use its immense authority to target higher education in ways that extend well beyond the admissions office.”
Justin Driver: Before affirmative action, in 1960, Harvard boasted a bumper crop of 9 Black freshmen (in a class of more than 1,200); Yale had 5 Black freshmen (in a class of more than 1,000); and Princeton had 1 Black freshman (in a class of more than 820).
To Ensure They Qualify for Federal Research Grants, Trump Demands Universities Sign a Compact Declaring Loyalty to His Agenda janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t...
The school funding conversation raging right now in the gerrymandered and deep-red Ohio Legislature has strayed far from the principle of justice defined by adequate and equitably distributed public school finance as a state responsibility.
“The Education Department has sent non-continuation notices to… grant recipients, saying their projects no longer align with the administration’s education policy focus on ‘merit, fairness, and excellence’… "
Ohio's legislature has shorted the state’s public schools by underfunding the Fair School Funding Plan, slashing the state income tax, diverting state revenue into private school tuition vouchers, and failing to oversee the diversion of state dollars into tax breaks.
Policy Matters Ohio on tax exemptions, exclusions, and deductions: "Spending through the tax code too often benefits select groups and special interests instead of funding public services that are available to everyone.”
The U.S. Supreme Court recently restricted the use of nationwide injunctions, but Martinez said one was necessary in this case because some providers have preschools in multiple states, including programs designed to serve migrant farmworker families.”
The attempt to withhold the already allocated federal funding for these colleges and universities is another step in the Trump administration’s attack on equal opportunity for groups of students who have historically experienced discrimination and exclusion in our society.
Trump Admin. Ends Funding for Minority-Serving Colleges and Threatens States’ Financial Aid for Undocumented College Students janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...
Trump Admin. Ends Funding for Minority-Serving Colleges and Threatens States’ Financial Aid for Undocumented College Students janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...
"Besides its denial of federal grants to Minority-Serving Institutions, the Trump administration has focused specific attacks on financial aid states and universities have been providing for undocumented students and “dreamers,” students brought to the U.S. often as toddlers..."
Trump Admin. Ends Funding for Minority-Serving Colleges and Threatens States’ Financial Aid for Undocumented College Students janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...
Trump Admin. Ends Funding for Minority-Serving Colleges and Threatens States’ Financial Aid for Undocumented College Students janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...
