Stephanie KingPeople think that Helen Gym is "all talk and no action," but that's carefully crafted bullshit. Here's me in In These Times: https://inthesetimes.com/article/helen-gym-bernie-sanders-aoc-philadelphia-mayor
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Education, ideology, finance, policy, socialism, climate, parenting, puns. I'm an associate professor of education policy writing a weekly newsletter called Schooling in Socialist America here: https://buttondown.email/davidibacker
@schooldaves This has been making me crazy this entire election season! Like, there are plenty of reasons not to like Helen as a candidate, but the fact is that she is THE public schools candidate, as anybody who's been in that fight well knows. And even without that, there's still Fair Workweek and eviction diversion! That's not nothing!
A student in my finance class pointed out how unfair it is that when a bank fails, the Fed steps in and big banks come to the rescue, but school districts that are having a hard time don’t exist to the Fed and don’t get any help from the well-to-do districts around them. So true.
I keep thinking about a school finance officer who told me that he prefers to the municipal bond market because it's more reliable than public programs: control of state power passes unpredictably between generous and pro-austerity groups, doing and undoing financing programs.
Turns out the municipal bond market is highly inefficient, and I think this is at the heart of the toxic schools issue in Philadelphia. https://buttondown.email/davidibacker/archive/does-this-seem-right/
HEYYY my homie @schooldaves yelling it loud and proud from Philadelphia to Chicago: PAUL VALLAS SUCKS. Don't mess this up, Chicago! https://inthesetimes.com/article/paul-vallas-brandon-johnson-public-education-mayor
“He Sold Our Schools off to the Highest Bidder”
A look inside Paul Vallas' history of harming public education and a sampling of the shock doctrine politics, anti-union postures, neoliberal policies and budgetary schemes he brought to school districts around the country—and world—and the havoc they helped create.
I’m going to be on the @histmat podcast today at 1pm EST talking about Althusser, education, and related topics. Listen in! https://youtube.com/live/M6ho_W4cLFQ
How to be a Marxist in the Academy: Athusserian Theories of Education
Your daily reminder that the EPA deadline for public entities to *send an email* expressing interest in IRA programs is 4/28. This includes school districts!
Your district can get a noncompetitive grant to make a plan. They even provide a template email. https://www.epa.gov/inflation-reduction-act/climate-pollution-reduction-grants#CPRG-HowtoApply
God damn it. Private equity saw childcare provision as a $60 billion market, so it's getting involved and it'll make the already rickety system more unstable and expensive.
https://scrippsnews.com/stories/child-care-costs-rising-with-private-equity-firm-investments/
David HarveyFree registration for my new online course, Reading Marx’s Grundrisse, is now open. We will meet on Tuesdays, February 7th - May 9th, 4:15 – 6:15 PM ET
https://peoplesforum.org/events/virtual-course-the-grundrisse-with-david-harvey-2/