Since 2022, AZ taxpayers funded $7.25M in Legos that individual families kept for themselves.
Every AZ K12 teacher could have spent ~$125 on purchases *for their whole class, present & future* w those "take my toys & go home" Lego sets.
[And yes, my code for this analysis was straight bananas.]
"The exercise in question required ships not to carry any ammunition. Normally, the Dena carries various missiles and guns, including anti-ship missiles. Because the U.S. also took part, it would have been aware that the Dena was unarmed."
Useful explainer on the crisis of the rising costs of childcare. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
With generous financial and tactical support from several key organizations, I'm leading a team to study the implementation and effects of AB 1454, California's version of the Science of Reading law. Excited to support better implementation in the Golden State! rossier.usc.edu/news-insight...
EV technology in China is truly amazing. Charging in 5 minutes rivals a gas station and seems like a game changer.
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I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
surely we can teach the children how to ethically use this product designed for unethical use by unethical people
“DOGE did real harm. Calling it “reimagining” does not undo that harm. And we do not have to parrot a narrative that says otherwise.”
In the category of “why we should never use two y-axes,” this here is the GOAT. Absolute GOAT.
There’s a reason R won’t even let you do two y axes. That reason is this.
(That said, still a legit huge accomplishment by China.)
AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.
Attorney and probate judge who was really not a good guy; salesman and rather bad gambler who was (I’m told) a very fun guy.
Yesss thank you
Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.
New at the @uscedpolicyhub.bsky.social Substack - what is student engagement, why are we concerned about it, and what can we do about it? @annarsaavedra.bsky.social edpolicyhub.substack.com/p/student-en...
There was a piece, I want to say this week or recently, that talked about (among other things) the proportion of kids who attend neighborhood public schools - does anyone know what I'm talking about?
I'm thrilled to see unallowable purchases called out, but the real scandal is what is allowed & the absence of oversight to ensure kids are being educated.
Public money=public accountability. Require every ESA kid be tested on core academic subjects every year, and publicly report results
😭😭😭
I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.
"Secretary Linda McMahon has vowed to “break up the federal education bureaucracy,” “return education to the states,” and “empower local leaders." Yet many local and state leaders whose politics differ from Trump’s are not feeling empowered — quite the opposite. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/03/03/t...
Doctor: You’re due for a vaccine for
Me: [interrupting] YES GIVE IT TO ME
(This is exactly what just happened to me; I was in the middle of typing the prior tweet when I was called.)
It is an ironclad law of nature that if you're in a waiting room and you think "I'm not going to get my laptop out because it's just going to be a couple minutes" and then ten minutes later you think "well I may as well get my laptop out, it's been ten minutes" you will be called 30 seconds later.
I gotta stop retweeting Jen's absolutely bonkers documentation of wacky Arizona Education Savings Account spending, but it's so good/bad. $15k of taxpayer dollars that are going to Legos instead of children's education.
Freedom!
this is a broad subtweet purely because it's so tangential that saying it in response to any post would be peak Reply Person, but comments like "wow, are you even TRAINED IN POLLING" do crack me up, because many v/ good and experienced opinion researchers I know have zero formal schooling in it
Fearing GOP win, California’s Democratic leader urges unviable party candidates for governor to drop out // www.latimes.com/california/s...
Great piece by Tim Daly on the decline of student effort (which is only going to accelerate if we allow AI to run roughshod over education) open.substack.com/pub/timdaly/...
unallowable pet expenses
Milton Friedman argued parents, if given govt $ to spend on education, would invest in kids' human capital. His model excluded pets.
Drawn from multiple ESA accounts, some of my favorite pet expenditures. Did you know they make wrinkle cream for bulldogs & frenchies? Or that dog DNA kits exist?
I was told we were a superpower
It's not just government, either. Corporate/tech stuff - it's just relentlessly, obviously stupid. Bad idea after bad idea. Self-inflicted stupidity.
