Sean Gill

How eight Democrats could elect a Republican governor in California A crowded field of eight California Democrats is splitting the race for governor, as the coalition behind outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom begins to fracture.

The wildly open #gubernatorial primary in #California shows the coalition of environmental groups, organized labor, progressive activists, and business-friendly moderates is unraveling without Newsom nypost.com/2026/03/07/o...

I think the pool of candidates could be very different depending on the outcome of the election, but maybe not?

Nice interview. The hardest thing for them to do is pick a new CEO while they’re still in transition

Interesting notes here. I do wonder if open meetings acts get in the way of coalition building

The Land-Use Question: When School Closures Become Neighborhood Policy - Research for Action By Alyn Turner When districts announce school closures, the framing is almost always educational: declining enrollment, underutilized buildings, operating costs, academic performance. But for the comm...

"Districts struggle to move closed school buildings into productive reuse, and holding vacant buildings is expensive" www.researchforaction.org/news-events/...

States weigh limits, outright bans on ed tech in schools Momentum appears to be growing against any screen time in schools as states like Tennessee and Kansas propose prohibiting ed tech for grades K-5.

A sign of things to come? www.k12dive.com/news/states-...

HB 2393 / SB 2310 in #Tennessee, as currently drafted, would ban not just cell phones, but 1:1 district-provided devices for K-5 instruction. Pretty remarkable turn of events given the persistent "AI is here" claims in many #education corners

Overall, Amber Northern's report seems to underscore the important role of #IES in providing the baseline data and research infrastructure that supports so much of what we know about improvement in #education #eddata ies.ed.gov/learn/blog/r...

The moment many of us in #edresearch have been waiting for...

Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences has been released.

ies.ed.gov/ies/2026/02/...

😀

It seemed like the consumer stand to gain from preserving WB as a major studio while potentially losing out if the Netflix/HBO streamings were combined. Now the market is losing a studio and moving Paramount+ content to HBO Max likely does little for the consumer either

This chart title made me laugh out loud. In the bitter way, but still.

A Bold Restructuring of Indy’s Public Schools, An Opportunity for Students Brown: With passage of state legislation, the city will embark on an ambitious plan putting charters and district schools on equal footing.

#Indianapolis "flyover country to some" might just have the roadmap for a new kind of district-charter cooperation in our nation, argues @bbrownindy.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/a-bo...

"Over the last decade, there has been a widening of a different kind of performance gap—the gap between higher- and lower-achieving students"

I looked up recently what the success rate for LLMs tuned for doing accounting is because that’s an ideal use case and it was like below 70% which is super unacceptable, like if your accountant fucked up that much you’d go to prison.

How to evaluate state pro-housing policies: Mind the empirical pitfalls - Niskanen Center As more state legislatures become laboratories of housing policy experimentation, social science researchers have once-in-a-generation opportunities to evaluate how pro-housing policies are working in...

30+ states have now adopted policies to boost housing production. Which means exciting opportunities for researchers to study these policies' effectiveness. Some guidance from me, via @niskanencenter.bsky.social, on how to design good state policy evaluations:
www.niskanencenter.org/how-to-evalu...

A couple fascinating things I learned reporting this:

1. Much of the plant life on the field was people in costume.
2. The finale required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics.
3. That was a real couple that got married during the Lady Gaga number.

So many more details here in the piece. Go read!

February 7, 2026 – Board Special Meeting: Retreat – Seattle Public Schools If you are planning on attending this meeting in person and need interpretation support, please contact the Board Office (boardoffice@seattleschools.org) by January 30, 2026.

None of us avid School Board watchers will be at the board retreat, because none of us can go be in person all day, and the board/district has chosen to not provide remote access in this year of our gourd 2026. They will be discussing board governance, the board work plan, and strategic planning.

Good to see bipartisan support for the Institute for Education Sciences (IES). IES provides the foundation or basic infrastructure for #eddata and research that inform almost everything we can say about #edpolicy

More choices are coming to education, but school districts can compete or even thrive in a choice-driven marketplace, says Afton's Katie Reed... aftonpartners.com/the-coming-e...

The scorn Seattleites have for Bellevue and former mayors alike is really something

They tried in Denver and it didn’t go well

As ICE Targets Twin Cities Schools & Bus Stops, Even Citizens Keep Kids Home 'Everybody’s affected’: Fear, anger and chaos as classrooms empty out, distance learning fails, student mental health suffers and teachers struggle.

The always excellent @bethhawkins.bsky.social untangles what is actually happening in #Minnesota schools right now. #StPaul district closed today and yesterday to organize #remotelearning options, as an example #edchat www.the74million.org/article/as-i...

Rebuking Trump, Congress Moves to Maintain Most Federal Education Funding Funding for key programs like Title I and IDEA are on track to remain level year over year.

New: Congress is on the verge of (largely) rebuking President Trump's budget proposal for education.

No major funding cuts, no block grants...but also no explicit block on ED efforts to shift program staff elsewhere. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet Amazon has joined Starlink, Google, and Meta in the scramble to control how Africa goes online.

“Africa remains the least-connected region in the world, yet this is precisely what makes it one of the most attractive markets for global connectivity providers. The scale of unmet demand means that virtually every major player sees Africa as a strategic growth market.”

One of the best editors / writing instructors I’ve ever worked with always said this.

How being a teacher spurred James Talarico’s Senate bid Talarico’s two years as a public school teacher is central to his Democratic Senate campaign after shaping his policy goals and driving his political rise through the Texas House.

His TFA exp sounds similar to many TFA’ers I’ve met. “You can’t learn/do much about schools in just two years” is a criticism many career educators hold about TFA, interesting here to see a GOP official saying it. #edpolicy www.texastribune.org/2026/01/16/j... @jamestalarico.bsky.social

Critics of bill to create new Indy education board call it ‘taxation without representation’ | Sean Gill Fair/equitable/adequate access to facilities, transportation, local property tax revenue, and special education services has long served as point of tension between #schooldistricts and public #charte...

Some quick thoughts on a new #school governance model for #Indianapolis www.linkedin.com/posts/srgill...

spot on!