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Budget Reconciliation?

January 14, 2021

In my constant search for school funding, particularly green school building infrastructure funding, the same friend that told me about the Department of...

D'oh

January 12, 2021

Last week I wrote about a possible revenue source for school infrastructure improvements at the Department of Energy. The DOE is guaranteeing loans for green...

"Education, Inequality, and School Finance" for socialists

January 8, 2021

If you want to know about school funding from a progressive point of view, you have to read Bruce D. Baker. His research over the last two decades and more...

DOE a Dear!

January 4, 2021

Well what do we have here? Apparently President-Elect Biden saved himself a juicy morsel of funding at the Department of Energy when he oversaw the last...

The Covid Vaccine and Socialism

January 3, 2021

In the flood of news about the covid vaccine, I’ve been reading about Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian scientist in Philadelphia who has been doggedly...

We need an education liquidity facility (ELF)

December 28, 2020

I was feeling pretty bummed last week. Pat Toomey all but doomed the municipal liquidity facility (MLF) as part of his demands to sign off on the CASH act,...

Shut down, forbidden, and banned

December 21, 2020

If you were chewing your fingernails and feeling generally bummed over the weekend about the fiscal relief talks, there’s now a deal. And it’s not great for...

Fiscal shit storm

December 18, 2020

It’s a big day for the MLF strategy. The Fed relief programs are at the center of a fiscal shit storm. It’s nerve-wracking. Infection rates are sky high. The...

How We Gonna Pay?

December 14, 2020

The left wants programs for people that need them. For schools, we want better teacher pay, benefits, school infrastructure updates, community school...

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...