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1 month ago | 
edsource.org | Monica Velez |Amy DiPierro |Morgan Polikoff
News Brief Wednesday February 26, 2025 5:48 pm The Oakland Education Association and parents are demanding the district find alternatives to the budget cuts officials proposed, including educator layoffs and cuts to programs, during a press conference on Tuesday. Proposed budget cuts in the Oakland Unified School District are up for discussion during Wednesday night’s board meeting.
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1 month ago | 
edsource.org | Monica Velez |Amy DiPierro |Morgan Polikoff
News Brief Wednesday February 26, 2025 12:30 pm Peggy Carr, the federal official who supervises the National Assessment of Educational Progress, (NAEP) often called the nation’s report card, was placed on administrative leave by the Trump administration Monday. This move comes on the heels of the elimination of millions of dollars of projects at the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm, EdWeek reported.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
minnpost.com | Morgan Polikoff
From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation. This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. Most people who know me would probably say I’m a data and accountability advocate.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
the74million.org | Morgan Polikoff
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Most people who know me would probably say I’m a data and accountability advocate. I’m on the board of the Data Quality Campaign and I’ve written extensively (and favorably) about the role of accountability in promoting educational improvement.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
caledonianrecord.com | Morgan Polikoff
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May 21, 2024 | 
laschoolreport.com | Morgan Polikoff
Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. Sometimes when I take a Lyft to LAX, the driver will ask what I do. If I tell the truth and say I’m a professor of education, I almost always regret it, because I’ll immediately get a variety of (usually) uninformed and inaccurate ideas about what’s wrong with schools and how to solve the nation’s education problems. Everyone has been in school, and almost everyone knows — or thinks they know — what needs fixing.
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May 20, 2024 | 
the74million.org | Morgan Polikoff
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Sometimes when I take a Lyft to LAX, the driver will ask what I do. If I tell the truth and say I’m a professor of education, I almost always regret it, because I’ll immediately get a variety of (usually) uninformed and inaccurate ideas about what’s wrong with schools and how to solve the nation’s education problems. Everyone has been in school, and almost everyone knows — or thinks they know — what needs fixing.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
marinij.com | Morgan Polikoff
The so-called parents’ rights movement in education took off in 2021 with the election of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, putting identity-related issues in the school curriculum front and center. The bogeyman of critical race theory was weaponized by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who called it “state-sanctioned racism” and made it the first target in the “anti-woke” campaign. But the political right has fixed its gaze on LGBTQ issues in schools.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
davisenterprise.com | Morgan Polikoff
But the political right has fixed its gaze on LGBTQ issues in schools. The reason for this shift is obvious: Anti-LGBTQ animus is still socially acceptable. Following this shift, there has been a sharp uptick in anti-LGBTQ legislation nationwide. Even in deep blue California, school boards have recently passed parental notification policies that require school district staff to inform parents if their children are transgender.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
desertsun.com | Morgan Polikoff
The so-called parents’ rights movement in education took off in 2021 with the election of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, putting identity-related issues in the school curriculum front and center. The bogeyman of critical race theory was weaponized by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who called it “state-sanctioned racism” and made it the first target in the “anti-woke” campaign. But the political right has fixed its gaze on LGBTQ issues in schools.
