tultican
@tultican.bsky.social
Former ME and school teacher; Public ed champion, for healthcare as a human rite. Blog: http://tultican.com, Cross-post: @[email protected] #EudcationMatters
Racism and greed are central tenets of New Orleans’s all-charter school education system. tultican.com/2025/12/08/c... #Privatization
Charter Schools in a Racist Big Easy
By Thomas Ultican 12/8/2025 New Orleans was the site of the largest slave market in America. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, more than 135,000 slaves were purchased in the Big Easy. This…
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December 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Racism and greed are central tenets of New Orleans’s all-charter school education system. tultican.com/2025/12/08/c... #Privatization
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Kelly Jensen: Which Parents Get “Parental Rights?” In This Ohio School, It’s Those Who Hate LGBTQ+ People - Now, those eager to implement far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ agendas have found their path to do so in Ohio. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Bigotry
Kelly Jensen: Which Parents Get “Parental Rights?” In This Ohio School, It’s Those Who Hate LGBTQ+ People - Network For Public Education
Reporting for Book Riot, Kelly Jensen looks at an Ohio district where parental rights are only for certain parents. Vaguely worded legislation is one of the biggest tools book banners have in their ar...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Kelly Jensen: Which Parents Get “Parental Rights?” In This Ohio School, It’s Those Who Hate LGBTQ+ People - Now, those eager to implement far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ agendas have found their path to do so in Ohio. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Bigotry
AL: Not That Choice! - Coach Tuberville opposes all school choice that he does not like. No wonder he is rated dumbest Senator in America. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #Privatization
AL: Not That Choice!
Tommy Tuberville, who is somehow a contender for the governorship of Alabama, joins the roster of school choice advocates who are actually against school choice.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
AL: Not That Choice! - Coach Tuberville opposes all school choice that he does not like. No wonder he is rated dumbest Senator in America. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #Privatization
Myrtle Wilson as MAGA Allegory - Myrtle is a self-defeating character similar to MAGA and similar to how poor Southerners have voted against their own self interest for decades. radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/06/m... via @plthomasEdD #SickPolitics
Myrtle Wilson as MAGA Allegory
[Header Photo by Girl with red hat on Unsplash] As a “good student” in high school and through college, I dutifully worked my way through the so-called major writers, mostly American wr…
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December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Myrtle Wilson as MAGA Allegory - Myrtle is a self-defeating character similar to MAGA and similar to how poor Southerners have voted against their own self interest for decades. radicalscholarship.com/2025/12/06/m... via @plthomasEdD #SickPolitics
The Racist Rot Baked into Trump’s Vitriol - The relentless racism. Oh my God! It’s omnipresent, occasionally wrapped in victimhood. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
The Racist Rot Baked into Trump’s Vitriol
Recognition of Black Struggles Replaced with Honoring Dear Leader’s Birthday
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December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The Racist Rot Baked into Trump’s Vitriol - The relentless racism. Oh my God! It’s omnipresent, occasionally wrapped in victimhood. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
NPE Releases a New Report on Charter Schools and Their Lack of Accountability dianeravitch.net/2025/12/08/n... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
NPE Releases a New Report on Charter Schools and Their Lack of Accountability
I was present in the very beginnings of the charter school movement. I advocated on their behalf. I and many others said that charter schools would be better than public schools because they would …
dianeravitch.net
December 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
NPE Releases a New Report on Charter Schools and Their Lack of Accountability dianeravitch.net/2025/12/08/n... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
In New Orleans, it is common to see White people move to the city and magically get their children into schools with 100 children on the waiting list. tultican.com/2025/12/08/c... #Privatization
Charter Schools in a Racist Big Easy
By Thomas Ultican 12/8/2025 New Orleans was the site of the largest slave market in America. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, more than 135,000 slaves were purchased in the Big Easy. This…
tultican.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In New Orleans, it is common to see White people move to the city and magically get their children into schools with 100 children on the waiting list. tultican.com/2025/12/08/c... #Privatization
Ignoring Cheating to Sell the All-Charter School System in the Big Easy. tultican.com/2025/12/08/c... #Privatization
Charter Schools in a Racist Big Easy
By Thomas Ultican 12/8/2025 New Orleans was the site of the largest slave market in America. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, more than 135,000 slaves were purchased in the Big Easy. This…
tultican.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Ignoring Cheating to Sell the All-Charter School System in the Big Easy. tultican.com/2025/12/08/c... #Privatization
High Expectations and High Standards: The Chatter is Nothing New! - Instead of complaining about our schools and lambasting them nonstop, the critics should be complaining about poverty and inequality. nancyebailey.com/2025/12/07/h... #EducationMatters
High Expectations and High Standards: The Chatter is Nothing New! - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
For Americans who care about their public schools and have watched them poked at over the years like an abused dog in a cage, Idrees Kahloon's piece in The Atlantic, "America is Sliding Toward Illiter...
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December 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
High Expectations and High Standards: The Chatter is Nothing New! - Instead of complaining about our schools and lambasting them nonstop, the critics should be complaining about poverty and inequality. nancyebailey.com/2025/12/07/h... #EducationMatters
Stephen Dyer: State Spending on Public School Students Lowest since 1997 - Ohio Republicans have turned against public education in a big way. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters
Stephen Dyer: State Spending on Public School Students Lowest since 1997 - Network For Public Education
Stephen Dyer breaks down some numbers for Ohio’s education spending, and finds that public school students are getting the shortest end of the stick in decades. I wanted to answer this simple question...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Stephen Dyer: State Spending on Public School Students Lowest since 1997 - Ohio Republicans have turned against public education in a big way. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters
ICYMI: Chorus Edition (12/7) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters
ICYMI: Chorus Edition (12/7)
The CMO of the Institute (that’s Chief Marital Officer) sings in a community chorus because, among other reasons, she objectively has a voice much like that of an angel.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
ICYMI: Chorus Edition (12/7) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters
Garry Rayno looks at some of the critics pointing out the major problems with New Hampshire’s taxpayer-funded voucher program. - He is one of them. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization
Garry Rayno: Public School Advocates Decry State’s Education Freedom Account Program - Network For Public Education
Garry Rayno looks at some of the critics pointing out the major problems with New Hampshire’s taxpayer-funded voucher program. Public education advocates said the state’s universal voucher program is ...
networkforpubliceducation.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Garry Rayno looks at some of the critics pointing out the major problems with New Hampshire’s taxpayer-funded voucher program. - He is one of them. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization
Reverse Centaurs, AI, and the Classroom - Sure to be the worst edtech yet which will eventually fail publicly. curmudgucation.substack.com/p/reverse-ce... #EdTech
Reverse Centaurs, AI, and the Classroom
Cory Doctorow gave us “enshittification” to explain much of what has gone wrong, and he is already moving on to explain much of what we suspect is wrong with the push for AI.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reverse Centaurs, AI, and the Classroom - Sure to be the worst edtech yet which will eventually fail publicly. curmudgucation.substack.com/p/reverse-ce... #EdTech
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California school district to pay more than $700,000 to settle official’s claims she was demoted for being gay - Right-wing school board's bias against gay people proved costly. www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/12/03/g... #EducationMatters
California school district to pay more than $700,000 to settle official’s claims she was demoted for being gay
Rose Tagnesi blamed her demotion from the district’s top special-education job on what she called a campaign of anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination by a majority of the school board.
www.eastbaytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
California school district to pay more than $700,000 to settle official’s claims she was demoted for being gay - Right-wing school board's bias against gay people proved costly. www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/12/03/g... #EducationMatters
Jeff Bryant: A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools -Commentators like Brookes and Austin ignore results of a quiet revolution in blue states implementing a school improvement plan commonly called the community school approach. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters
Jeff Bryant: A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools - Network For Public Education
Independent journalist Jeff Bryant writes for The Progressive about a quiet trend that is revitalizing schools across the country. In October, The New York Times pundit David Brooks urged Democrats to...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Jeff Bryant: A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools -Commentators like Brookes and Austin ignore results of a quiet revolution in blue states implementing a school improvement plan commonly called the community school approach. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #EducationMatters
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TED Talks Coming to San Diego: Any Chance of Getting a Slot ? - Doug also covers The Pipebomber Revealed?, So Many Lies About Sunk Boats, How Many ICE Trainees Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb? @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
TED Talks Coming to San Diego: Any Chance of Getting a Slot ?
Topics for Today: The Pipebomber Revealed?, So Many Lies About Sunk Boats, How Many ICE Trainees Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb? And more…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
TED Talks Coming to San Diego: Any Chance of Getting a Slot ? - Doug also covers The Pipebomber Revealed?, So Many Lies About Sunk Boats, How Many ICE Trainees Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb? @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
RFK Jr. Endangers the Lives of Children with His Extremist, Anti-Vax Views - We have a government run by crazy people. This is dangerous. dianeravitch.net/2025/12/05/r... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
RFK Jr. Endangers the Lives of Children with His Extremist, Anti-Vax Views
Before he was named Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was best known for his extremist views about vaccines. He has said repeatedly that vaccines are unsafe, that the va…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
RFK Jr. Endangers the Lives of Children with His Extremist, Anti-Vax Views - We have a government run by crazy people. This is dangerous. dianeravitch.net/2025/12/05/r... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
Florida: School Board Leaders Boo State Commissioner of Education - Then he suggested the state could look at shutting down “failing” school districts. That’s when the boos started flying. dianeravitch.net/2025/12/05/f... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
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December 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Florida: School Board Leaders Boo State Commissioner of Education - Then he suggested the state could look at shutting down “failing” school districts. That’s when the boos started flying. dianeravitch.net/2025/12/05/f... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
OK: That Anti-Trans Essay and OSU's Shame - So maybe Samantha Fulnecky is really upset about her grade. Or maybe she is launching a career in the moral panic industry (she’s already made it to Fox). open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters
OK: That Anti-Trans Essay and OSU's Shame
Samantha Fulnecky tried to bullshit her way through an assignment and got called out on it.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
OK: That Anti-Trans Essay and OSU's Shame - So maybe Samantha Fulnecky is really upset about her grade. Or maybe she is launching a career in the moral panic industry (she’s already made it to Fox). open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters