Jennifer Berkshire

1 week ago | thenation.com | Jack Schneider |Jennifer Berkshire

May 29, 2025 The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 ActsThe Trump administration’s funding cuts and attacks on public education are just the beginning. Ad Policy Protesters stage a “study-in” in front of the Department of Education on March 21, 2025.(Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images) Burn it down. That’s what appears to be the guiding strategy of the Trump administration—particularly when it comes to education. Cancel the grants and contracts. Fire the employees.

2 weeks ago | educationwars.substack.com | Jennifer Berkshire

Champagne corks, storm clouds—I’m mixing my metaphors here. But as we survey the steaming wreckage of the 2025 state legislative sessions, both are present in spades.

3 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Jennifer Berkshire

When it comes to poking holes in the GOP’s claims to now be a populist party of the working class, the effort to shred Medicaid in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy is exhibit A. But I’d make the case that a $5 billion voucher program, smuggled into the text of the budget reconciliation bill this week, may be an even more glaring example of faux populism in action.

3 weeks ago | educationwars.substack.com | Jennifer Berkshire

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1 month ago | educationwars.substack.com | Jennifer Berkshire

Reader: we’re heading to Texas, where this weekend something astonishing happened. At the very moment that Governor Greg Abbott was signing his deeply controversial voucher legislation, voters were rejecting the same education culture wars that Abbott et al have stoked relentlessly in order to justify said school vouchers.