tultican
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Former ME and school teacher; Public ed champion, for healthcare as a human rite. Blog: http://tultican.com, Cross-post: @[email protected] #EudcationMatters
Nichiren: And the Opening of the Eyes Promotional Video. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/185oa... #Buddhism
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December 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Nichiren: And the Opening of the Eyes Promotional Video. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/185oa... #Buddhism
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Rep. Issa’s District Hopping Days May Be Over - There’s no doubt at this point in the process that the President is unhinged, and his administration is clearly corrupt. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Rep. Issa’s District Hopping Days May Be Over
President Donald Trump Is Now the Congressman's Beast of Burden
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December 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Rep. Issa’s District Hopping Days May Be Over - There’s no doubt at this point in the process that the President is unhinged, and his administration is clearly corrupt. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Steve Schmidt: The Hegseth Ethos - An excellent and spot on essay. Thanks Steve! dianeravitch.net/2025/12/10/s... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
Steve Schmidt: The Hegseth Ethos
Steve Schmidt is a veteran political strategist who worked for Republicans, most recently for John McCain in 2008. When Trump was elected, Schmidt was a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project…
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December 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Steve Schmidt: The Hegseth Ethos - An excellent and spot on essay. Thanks Steve! dianeravitch.net/2025/12/10/s... via @dianeravitch #SickPolitics
6 Questions Teachers Should Ask Before Implementing AI - It is mostly corporate snake oil. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EdTech
6 Questions Teachers Should Ask Before Implementing AI
From Forbes.com
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December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
6 Questions Teachers Should Ask Before Implementing AI - It is mostly corporate snake oil. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EdTech
New paper highlights the fraudulent failure that the New Orleans all-charter system is. 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 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New paper highlights the fraudulent failure that the New Orleans all-charter system is. tultican.com/2025/12/08/c... #Privatization
New Hampshire: Vouchers Are Robin Hood in Reverse - It is a new education cost for the state, but no new taxes, or fees or anything was created to pay for it. dianeravitch.net/2025/12/09/n... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
New Hampshire: Vouchers Are Robin Hood in Reverse
Garry Rayno of InDepthNH keeps a close watch over the legislature in New Hampshire. He is particularly interested in the state’s relatively new voucher plan. It was sold, as usual, as a plan …
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December 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
New Hampshire: Vouchers Are Robin Hood in Reverse - It is a new education cost for the state, but no new taxes, or fees or anything was created to pay for it. dianeravitch.net/2025/12/09/n... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Disillusionment: The Charter School Dream Has Utterly Collapsed - It is an education sector dominated by fraud, corruption, and the theft of public tax dollars. janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/d... via @janresseger #Privatization
Disillusionment: The Charter School Dream Has Utterly Collapsed
Launched in the mid-1990s, charter schools—publicly funded but privately operated—have been authorized to operate in 44 states with a mixed academic record and an appalling absence of p…
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December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Disillusionment: The Charter School Dream Has Utterly Collapsed - It is an education sector dominated by fraud, corruption, and the theft of public tax dollars. janresseger.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/d... via @janresseger #Privatization
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…
tultican.com
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...
networkforpubliceducation.org
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