BullshitED
Cutting Through the Noise in Education, Parenting, and Policy.
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My Favorite Part of Back-to-School Happens at Drop-Off (opens the original)
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This memo is for: school leaders, funders, parents, community builders, and anyone whose definition of education still starts and ends with the school building.Use it in: back-to-school conversations, community partnership work, funding strategy, and any room trying to decide what kids actually need to grow up well.If you only have a minute: School matters enormously. So do grandmas, coaches, neighbors, rec centers, jobs, parks, libraries, cousins, camps, clubs, and all the other places where ki
Universal Pre-K Did Not Have to Be This Complicated (opens the original)
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This memo is for: Governors, legislators, early-childhood leaders, funders, and school-system people trying to expand public preschool.Use it in: UPK redesigns, budget conversations, early-childhood strategy meetings, and any room where universal access somehow requires another new system.If you only have a minute:Colorado promised families universal preschool and built a program with different hour levels, eligibility rules, participating providers, special reimbursement rates, and funding that
What Are We Actually Buying for Kids? (opens the original)
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This memo is for: district leaders, funders, policy people, school operators, parent advocates, and anyone spending money because they believe it will help kids learn.Use it in: budget meetings, grant reviews, school-design conversations, tax-credit fights, and any room where adults defend the system before naming what kids are supposed to get.If you only have a minute: My LinkedIn feed has started putting two education conversations next to each other. In one, people talk openly about education
Democrats Keep Trying to Win an Education Argument Voters Aren’t Having (opens the original)
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This memo is for: Democratic policymakers, funders, strategists, and education reformers trying to make education matter politically again.Use it in: Platform meetings, donor retreats, and any room where education people mistake their own urgency for the public’s.If you only have a minute:Education used to sit near the top of the national political agenda. It does not anymore. Parents still care deeply about schools, but they experience them through money, safety, technology, honesty, and wheth
The Private-School Tax Credit Is a Public-School Fundraising Machine. (opens the original)
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This memo is for: superintendents, district foundation leaders, charter leaders, mayors, United Ways, employers, and public-school supporters who still think the new federal scholarship tax credit belongs to somebody else.Use it in: cabinet meetings, foundation board retreats, state opt-in conversations, 2027 budget planning, and any room where public-school leaders are waiting for private-school advocates to define the opportunity.If you only have a minute: Private-school advocates wrote the fe
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