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The Case of Richard Dunlap
December 4, 2020
While revising a materialist analysis of Pennsylvania school funding inequality for an educational leadership journal, the editors asked that I cut my...
Education: critical vs. structural
November 16, 2020
The following is a gestural sketch of some overarching ideas coming out of the last few years of my research. I read these for the Critical Theories in the...
Non-educated Voters
November 11, 2020
I’ve been thinking about ‘non-educated voters’. Not being educated when it comes to the electorate means not having a college degree. To liberals and some...
Apparatuses all the way down
October 29, 2020
In my last post, I came up upon an entity called the Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA). I hadn’t heard of this little corner of the Pennsylvania...
School Infrastructure Funding in Pennsylvania
October 23, 2020
The MLF strategy calls for better terms on Fed bond purchases to fund school infrastructure improvement. One question in that strategy when it comes to...
School Funding in the Pandemic News Roundup
October 6, 2020
Readers know I’ve been following the Fed’s municipal lending facility as a possible route to liquidity support in school funding. I’m using this space to...
Rural and Urban School Districts Fighting Together
September 28, 2020
Part of the MLF strategy is putting together a coalition of urban and rural school districts to demand better terms. The urban-rural divide is one of the...
When Daddy and Mommy Fight
September 23, 2020
The Congressional Oversight Committee met on September 17th. The topic of discussion: the Fed’s Municipal Liquidity Facility. As readers of this space know,...
Budgetary Learned Helplessness
September 18, 2020
I usually write about K-12 schooling but an interesting thing happened this last week in higher education. The thing happened to me, and the story is helpful...
Did Philly Just Get Hosed?
September 14, 2020
On September 1, the city of Philadelphia sold a bond worth $300m. Underwritten by Wells Fargo, the interest rate was 4%.You read that correctly. 4%. The city...
Response to Richard Hudson-Miles
September 2, 2020
My current project is looking at school funding from a socialist perspective. Before that project I wanted to figure out what ‘socialist perspective’ means...
Illinois and the MTA
August 25, 2020
The Municipal Lending Facility has accepted two applications: the State of Illinois and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. I’ve been examining...
The Green MLF Strategy
August 20, 2020
The MLF strategy calls for urban and rural school districts to apply for the Federal Reserve’s Municipal Liquidity Facility loans. Poor districts should take...
Organizing the MLF Strategy
August 12, 2020
This is Part 4 of a series on school funding in the covid crisis. Part 1 is an overview of a policy proposal for the School District of Philadelphia to take...
Are School Districts Eligible Issuers for the MLF?
August 8, 2020
Oh boy.After a conversation with a policy analyst, a super important point came up that I’d completely missed: can a school district even be eligible to...
An MLF Loan for a School District: The Details
August 6, 2020
On Monday I laid out a policy proposal for school funding in the covid crisis. School districts, urban and rural, should apply to the MLF for loans. In...
School Funding in the Covid Crisis
August 3, 2020
[I’ll be discussing these ideas at an upcoming event if you’re interested in joining!]Things are bad. Really bad. It’s truly a crisis in the sense that this...
New directions: school finance
July 28, 2020
When the pandemic started my partner was eight months pregnant. I needed something to distract myself from the anxiety of having a child in a crisis. I’d...
Is there a train-wreck coming?
June 29, 2020
Scared there's a train wreck coming. I think society's basically got two parts: a state and an economy. They're inter-related. The economy is how we make our...
On the fireworks
June 24, 2020
Every night, or even in the afternoon and mid-day, we hear explosions. The explosions are sometimes a singular big boom. Other times there are multiple booms...
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