We defend every child's right to enroll in the best public schools.
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Every year thousands of kids across our country are turned away unfairly or illegally from public schools.
That has to change. It's time to ensure public schools are available to all kids.
Join us in this fight: availabletoall.org/
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I read a book I really liked very much. Today @unherd.
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"Merrill seems to be asking us to take seriously the banal drama of an elite young man, two girls, and a year abroad, conveyed via the traditional means of plot, character, and scene."
Me today @unherd on a very good book. @cribbenMerrill @timderoche
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Hey, all of you "how do we save literature?" bros ... this is how.
Me, today @unherd.
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A guy writes a book. It has been a long time. Me for @unherd on a Girardian direction for literature. @cribbenMerrill @WisebloodBooks
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Somehow @valerie_reads takes a book review and turns it into a clever meditation on where literature can and should go. Excellent work.
And @cribbenMerrill has written a wonderful book--wise and witty both.
"Merrill seems to be asking us to take seriously the banal drama of an elite young man, two girls, and a year abroad, conveyed via the traditional means of plot, character, and scene."
Me today @unherd on a very good book. @cribbenMerrill @timderoche
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"...notably, there is a difference between the forced and segregated residential assignment of a half-century ago and the distortions in school finance it catalyzed, and the landscape today in a choice-rich environment like New York City." vitalcitynyc.org/nikole-hann…
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Delighted to discuss Ms. Hannah-Jones' essay with @arotherham and @CharterFolk this week. youtube.com/watch?v=FUQsLxZW…
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It’s a mistake to design public policy that requires someone to act against the best interests of their own children.
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Public education has been "pay to play" for a long time now.
Nothing new for parents who want a good education for their kids.
The Pay-to-Play Model Has Broken Youth Sports nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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I wholeheartedly agree with this idea. When we lived in Hendricks County years ago, our oldest was 4 days from the cutoff. He had to "test" in. Avon (our home district) said no, due to class size. Took him to Danville. They took him. He is in Purdue's engineering program now.
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The most common form of school choice in Indiana is transfers between traditional public schools.
It's time we allow local funding to follow the student, even to one of these competitive traditional public schools.
Read my latest for @indystar below.
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Available to all!
Here's what it costs to live in America's top school districts - and it's not looking cheap for New Yorkers trib.al/AvZ04x4
Are you seeing what's going on in Boston? @BostonGlobe did an investigation and found that the Milton Public Schools is using police officers to spy on kids that it suspects are living outside the district.
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Districts spying on kids is the *inevitable* consequence of assigning kids to schools based on residential address.
And these laws are selectively enforced. Lots of families are--wink, wink--allowed to stay in schools even when the school knows they're using someone else's address.
Are you following what's going on in Ohio? Parents are having to cough up "tuition" for their kids to stay in the public schools that they've been attending for years. 1/n
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THIRD, state funding formulas should allow for easy open enrollment across district lines. If your state's funding formula keeps kids trapped in failing schools that aren't a good fit, then the funding formula is hurting families and needs to be reformed.
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