To schools themselves
Quick Links Advait Arun wrote a thoughtful review of my book for his substack at The Crow’s Nest. He really gets what the book is all about politically,...
Mortifying amortization
Leonie Haimson slightly corrected a previous post of mine. She’s a prolific NYC-DOE watcher so I was grateful for her feedback. I said in a previous post...
Aggressively regressive
Quick links School board member training by Public School Strong, happening 12/4.An expansive review of my book in Jacobin published last week by Max...
Education 040
Quick Links Mia on the It Could Happen Here podcast featured my Baffler essay on the municipal bond market in a recent episode. Check it out.New fancy...
Trumproof
Announcement: Tomorrow at 3pm EST I’ll be speaking on a panel about state and federal funding formulas for the Institute for Education Leadership’s quarterly...
Liberatory municipal finance
Important reading: The Labor Network for Solidarity and Building Power Resource Center have published an awesome new report that everyone should read called...
Bondfinders
Some exciting news! After working with the press on the promotion of my new book As Public as Possible, they gave me a discount code for readers of this...
Healthy school finance worksheet
I recently co-facilitated a workshop called Back to School Finance through the Debt Collective. The idea was to do a training on how to start looking at...
Power in numbers
I was interviewed on the progressive podcast Have You Heard last month. I talked about a bunch of district budget struggles and some organizing fights. So...
"First Person Shooter"
Before I get to today’s post, an announcement: If you’re in the NYC area, consider attending this amazing event on Green Schools and Labor put on by a bunch...
Nothing never happens
This is pretty exciting: My book As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (New Press) is coming out in a couple months. That means we’re...
Weak link policies
If you didn’t see it already, sign up for this Back to School Finance Workshop that’s happening this week! I’ll be co-leading a training on how to start...
Back to school finance
Back to school finance training I’ve been making tiktoks about school finance from a left perspective. About two years ago, I started getting requests to...
Is it simple to be a marxist in school finance?
Last year, a colleague Lucas Pellisari from Brazil got in touch with me. He was putting together a collection on education and modes of production, focusing...
Five things to read
Over the last month, articles by comrades and colleagues have come out that I want to put on your radar. Here’s a link and the abstract for each: Indebting...
Roiling magma
I’m so mad. What’s happening out there is fascism, plain and simple, and it’s just unfolding in front of our eyes. I read a piece in the Financial Times...
BARB wire?
Zohran won. The feeling of that victory in the recent Democratic primary for New York City mayor was unlike any other political feeling I’ve had recently....
A cooperative public education bank
Public schools need more money, but they lack it everywhere—particularly when it comes to infrastructure. In the United States, public schools have to pay...
Breathing, bad for prices
There’s an amazing piece of research from last year that I want to write about this week. Barbara Biasi and colleagues, who do some of the best economic...
School Finance Regimes
In my years of studying school finance as a socialist, I’ve had a lingering question: how do other countries do it, exactly? To answer that question, I’m...