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476		<h1><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/10/01/come-to-hear-brilliant-analysis-of-trumps-war-on-dei/" rel="bookmark">Come to Hear a Brilliant Analysis of Trump&#8217;s War on DEI!</a></h1>
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488<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Come to Wellesley College to hear Dr. Yohuru Williams dissect and eviscerate the Trump administration&#8217;s attack on &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion.&#8221;</p>
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492<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Such policies are meant to broaden opportunity. They take us closer to our professed goals of liberty and justice for all. Yet the Trump administration wants to abolish them. Civil rights protections have already been reversed, so that any effort to help students of color is treated as a violation of this administration&#8217;s hostility to DEI.</p>
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545<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In January 2027, the federal government will launch a new voucher program. It&#8217;s available to states if the Governor opted to participate. The program was part of what Trump called his &#8220;One Big Beautiful Bill,&#8221; but which critics called &#8220;One Big Ugly Bill,&#8221; because it locked in big tax cuts for the wealthiest while cutting benefits for middle-class and poor Americans.</p>
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549<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At the recent conference of the Network for Public Education, our board met to discuss whether we would support resistance or collaboration. Although we understand that some schools want to capture any money they can to support their students, we decided to stand strongly for the principle: PUBLIC DOLLARS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. AND ONLY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. we concluded that if public schools accept vouchers, it will normalize the ideas embedded in the program, that is, that education is a consumer good. We believe it is a civic responsibility. </p>
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553<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Leigh Dingerson&#8217;s <a href="https://inthepublicinterest.org/public-education-on-a-precipice/">description of this new program was published</a> by <strong>In the Public Interest,</strong> which reports about the privatization of everything.</p>
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565<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The idea that government has an inherent interest in providing a free, public education for every child used to be sacrosanct, except among a small set of radical reformers like Milton Friedman. But a 40-year campaign for “school choice” has quietly gathered steam. Proponents of privatization are now openly acknowledging that their sights are set on eliminating public schools. They want to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education (founded to ensure the civil rights of children in schools) and offer no-strings-attached public dollars to private and religious schools. And now,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/25/nebraska-lawsuit-claims-public-schools-are-unconstitutional/">a lawsuit filed in Nebraska</a>&nbsp;just this month argues that the U.S. system of public schools violates the First Amendment and asks the state to declare public schools unconstitutional.</em></p>
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581<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The implications of almost-universal private school vouchers are enormous. The federal tax credit voucher program signals a massive shift towards a privatized, market-based system with few if any guardrails to serve our most vulnerable students, ensure equity, rein in discrimination, or address educational qual
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707<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Reverend Benjamin R. Cremer has an unusual personal history. He grew up in a strict evangelical family in Idaho. He was home-schooled. He became a pastor, following in the path of his faith. </p>
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831<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>For those who are seeking to help these children, you can find out how through Kids In Need Of Defense:&nbsp;<a href="https://supportkind.org/get-involved" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://supportkind.org/get-involved</a></em></p>
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839<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Read more here:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/politics/texas-immigration-court-minors" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/politics/texas-immigration-court-minors</a></em></p>
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871<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Robert Hubbell is a steady and wise blogger who has a knack for interpreting events as they happen. While Heather Cox Richardson looks at the day&#8217;s events from a historical perspective; Hubbell has a keen perspective honed by age and experience.</p>
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875<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At a time when the public is skeptical, even fearful,  of artificial intelligence, Trump has embraced this powerful technology with fervor, reassuring the tech titans that the federal government won&#8217;t regulate them but will trust them to regulate themselves. Simultaneously, Bill Gates was worrying in public that AI had the potential to wipe out a billion people. This is a &#8220;don&#8217;t worry, be happy&#8221; moment for Trump and his circle. They Pooh-pooh the growing number of people who worry about what big data centers will do to their water supply, their electricity bills, their jobs, their lives. Trump doesn&#8217;t get it. </p>
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879<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans have chosen to use the weeks before the mid-term elections rehashing the investigation of Trump&#8217;s efforts to overturn his electoral loss in 2024. They have chosen this moment to prosecute Jack Smith, who led the investigation of Trump. In their attempt to prove that Trump was unjustly targeted, they are successfully rekindling bad memories of January 6, 2021, when Trump summoned a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol. Five years later, is this a winning hand for them. Hubbell thinks not. </p>
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883<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/republicans-are-not-only-failing?r=rls8&amp;utm_medium=ios">He wrote about yesterday&#8217;s events;</a></p>
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913<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>When in the history of the world has “self-regulation” by monopolists ever inured to the benefit of the people—as opposed to the generational wealth of the monopolists?</em></p>
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961. (“Johnson deleted his post later on Tuesday, after it had been up for hours with a community correction. Sean Hannity also picked up and ran with Schmitt’s story, but deleted his post highlighting the moment soon after.”)</em></p>
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1041Kansas: Republican Senator Was a Doctor. He Sued Hundreds of His Patients Who Didn&#8217;t Pay Their Bills</a></h1>
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1053<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Republican Senator Roger Marshall is in a close race with Democrat Rev. Adam Hamilton in Kansas. Senator Marshall used to be an obstetrician. Sarah Kliff of <strong>The New York Times</strong> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/politics/roger-marshall-obgyn-doctor-debts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AlE.HDK2.INT9vTPuchCJ&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share">went through state records</a> and discovered that he has an ugly history. Of course, patients should pay their bills. But is it really necessary to have them arrested? </p>
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1057<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The <strong>Times</strong> reported:</p>
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1125<p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0 wp-block-paragraph"><em>Neale Mahoney, an economist at Stanford University, has conducted research in one state&nbsp;<a class="css-povzk" href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01130" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">finding</a>&nbsp;that lawsuits against patients are relatively rare, with about 1.7 percent of hospital stays resulting in litigation.</em></p>
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1129<p class="css-12m5bll evys1bk0 wp-block-paragraph"><em>“It’s not surprising there are outliers but this does seem to be an extreme case,” in terms of how far a doctor went to pursue debt, Mr. Mahoney said.</em></p>
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1149		<h1><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/30/bruce-baker-trying-to-understand-margaret-rozas-cure-for-underfunded-schools/" rel="bookmark">Bruce Baker: Trying to Understand Margaret Roza&#8217;s Cures for Underfunded Schools</a></h1>
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1154				<div class="timestamp"><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/30/bruce-baker-trying-to-understand-margaret-rozas-cure-for-underfunded-schools/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Bruce Baker: Trying to Understand Margaret Roza&#8217;s Cures for Underfunded Schools">September 30, 2026</a> //</div> <div class="comment-bubble"><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/30/bruce-baker-trying-to-understand-margaret-rozas-cure-for-underfunded-schools/#comments">4</a></a></div>		<div class="clearboth"><!-- --></div>
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1161<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bruce Baker is one of the stellar scholars in the field of economics of education. He is <strong>currently at the University of Miami</strong>. He is a <strong>Professor and Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning</strong> in Miami’s School of Education and Human Development.</p>
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1165<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://schoolfinance101.com/2026/09/29/seventeen-years-of-roza-tinted-glasses
1165/">In this post, he takes issue</a> with the economic prescriptions of Margaret Roza. Her work has been embraced by the privatizers.</p>
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1168
1169<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Baker begins: </p>
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1173<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><em>My critiques of Marguerite Roza, the Edunomics Lab, and Education Resource Strategies — with receipts. Every quotation is verbatim from the linked post or article.</em></strong></p>
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1176
1177<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em><strong>24</strong> blog entries, Aug 2009 – Aug 2026 (and counting)</em></p>
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1179
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1181<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em><strong>21</strong> taking on Roza, from CRPE to Gates to Georgetown</em></p>
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1183
1184
1185<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em><strong>4</strong> taking on ERS or Karen Hawley Miles</em></p>
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1188
1189<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em><strong>3</strong> on Edunomics graphs, so far</em></p>
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1193<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The short version</h2>
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1197<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>I’ve spent an embarrassing share of my career, seventeen years and counting, cleaning up after Marguerite Roza. It has come in two waves. The first ran from 2009 to 2014, when she was at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and then advising the Gates Foundation, and her work was all over the federal policy conversation. The second started in 2025, when the Edunomics Lab she now runs at Georgetown began handing state policymakers graphs so bad I made a video about them. Education Resource Strategies (ERS) comes up less often, but it keeps turning up in the same places. Its founder, Karen Hawley Miles, co-wrote the Houston/Cincinnati weighted student funding (WSF) “success story” with Roza. Stephen Frank presented ERS slides alongside Roza’s fabricated graph at the 2011 Regents symposium. And ERS graded Baltimore’s Fair Student Funding against Baltimore’s own formula.</em></p>
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1201<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>It comes down to the same four problems, over and over:</em></p>
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1203
1204
1205<ul class="wp-block-list">
1206<li><em><strong>Blame the districts.</strong>&nbsp;The claim goes like this: states have fixed between-district inequity, so the problem left is within districts, and weighted student funding fixes that. The evidence for that sweeping national claim turns out to be “one or a handful of deeply flawed analyses,” mostly Roza’s Texas Weighted Student Index study. That study checks schools against the district’s own spending priorities, not against what kids actually need.</em></li>
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1208
1209
1210<li><em><strong>Productivity without the arithmetic.</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Stretching the School Dollar,&nbsp;Curing Baumol’s Disease</strong>, and the USDOE productivity page that showcased them offer spending cuts relabeled as “cost savings,” without a single cost-effectiveness analysis. Hank Levin laid out how to do one back in 1983. It isn’t a secret.</em></li>
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1212
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1214<li><em><strong>Evidence that was simply made up.</strong>&nbsp;Roza’s 2011 “productivity curve” had no data, no definitions and no connection to anything real. Researchers in the room said the claims were “simply made up.” ERS’s contribution at the same event: all teacher pay above the starting salary is waste.</em></li>
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1218<li><em><strong>Money-doesn’t-matter graphics.</strong>&nbsp;Edunomics’ long-term trend graphs start the clock in 2013, the one year that all but guarantees spending up and scores down, then skip the cost adjustment and stretch the axes. Their scatterplots throw every school onto one chart with no cost adjustment and call the resulting cloud a finding.</em></li>
1219</ul>
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1222
1223<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Yes, my tone has changed. In 2011 I called this work “methodologically flimsy” and “hack research.” By 2025 I was calling it “intentionally deceitful,” and I stand by that. Once you’ve been told, repeatedly and in public, exactly why a graph misleads, and you keep putting it in front of legislators anyway, “sloppy” stops being the right word. As I put it on Bluesky: “for anyone still using this kind of garbage, you’ve been on notice for years.”</em></p>
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1227<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The peer-reviewed version is politer, but it says the same thing. I’ve never said within-district inequity isn’t real. It is. What I have said, with data (EPAA, 2009), is that the WSF showcase districts were no more responsive to student need than districts without WSF. WSF was sold on advocacy research that “identifies the politically motivated solution then seeks to prove that it works.” And you can’t fix a district its state has starved by rearranging what’s left inside it. My 2013 NEPC review gave ERS’s Baltimore analysis the same treatment: grading a formula against itself isn’t an equity analysis. It’s a tautology.</em></p>
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1231<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Please open the link and read the rest of Bsker&#8217;
1231s analysis. This post analyzes what happens when economic analysis becomes untethered from the needs of students. </p>
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1247		<h1><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/29/did-netanyahu-know-about-the-october-7-attack-before-it-happened/" rel="bookmark">Did Netanyahu Know about the October 7 Attack Before It Happened?</a></h1>
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1249				<a href="https://dianeravitch.net/author/dianerav/" title="View all posts by dianeravitch">
1250					By dianeravitch				</a>
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1252				<div class="timestamp"><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/29/did-netanyahu-know-about-the-october-7-attack-before-it-happened/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Did Netanyahu Know about the October 7 Attack Before It Happened?">September 29, 2026</a> //</div> <div class="comment-bubble"><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/29/did-netanyahu-know-about-the-october-7-attack-before-it-happened/#comments">34</a></a></div>		<div class="clearboth"><!-- --></div>
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1259<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">For as long as I can remember, I have been a strong supporter of Israel. I was ten years old when the state was created as a refuge for the Jewish people, for those who survived the European genocide and for those who were fleeing persecution in Muslim countries across the Middle East.&nbsp;</p>
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1263<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">In Sunday School every week, we children brought pennies, nickels, and dimes to fill up little blue tin cans marked &#8220;For Palestine.&#8221;&nbsp;</p>
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1267<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">We celebrated the creation of the state of Israel and its triumph when it was attacked by all the neighboring Arab states. And we celebrated every other attempt to extinguish the only Jewish state in the world, the only safe haven for Jews.&nbsp;</p>
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1271<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">But my unwavering faith in Israel has been shattered by Benjamin Netanyahu and his ruthless response to the horrific events of October 7, 2023.&nbsp;</p>
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1275<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">His brutal campaign of violence in Gaza has not only killed tens of thousands of civilians but has made Gaza an uninhabitable wasteland.&nbsp;</p>
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1277
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1279<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Almost as awful is his refusal to stop the violent attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians living on the West Bank. The Israeli Defense Forces have failed to intervene as rabid settlers torch the homes of Palestinians and murder them.&nbsp;</p>
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1281
1282
1283<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Netanyahu is directly responsible for murder, aggression, and brutality. Instead of seeking peace, he is continuing the inhumane treatment of Palestinians and indulging the extremist settlers who want to seize more and more of the West Bank.&nbsp;</p>
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1286
1287<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Netanyahu justifies whatever he does or condones because of the Hamas attack on October 7.&nbsp;</p>
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1291<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">But there is a disturbing picture emerging about that day, stongly suggesting that Netanyahu was warned about October 7 and failed to take action. Did he decide not to protect the people who lived near the border with Gaza? If he did, he is an accessory to their deaths.</p>
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1295<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Like many other people, I was appalled by the savagery of October 7. I was obsessed by the accounts of the attacks on young people dancing until dawn at &#8220;the Rave.&#8221; They were hunted down and slaughtered like animals. They were killed as they hid, as they attempted to flee. Families in the Kibbutzim near the border were mercilessly murdered, even the children. Some 251 hostages were brutally kidnapped and taken to Gaza. &nbsp;</p>
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1299<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Immediately after that day&#8217;s horrifying events, I subscribed to the English-language version of <strong>Ha&#8217;aretz</strong> to learn what was happening from an Israeli perspective. <strong>Ha&#8217;aretz</strong> is a a liberal, anti-Netanyahu publication. Soon after the October 7 massacre, a disturbing story appeared. The story said that trained observers at a military monitoring post called Nahal Oz, near the Gaza-Israeli border, had repeatedly informed their superiors about what they s
1299aw every day on the other side of the fence in Gaza. To them, it appeared that Hamas was preparing for an incursion.&nbsp;</p>
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1302
1303<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">The monitors were identified as Combat Intelligence Collection Unit 414. Unit 414 consisted of 25 unarmed young women, trained to watch the border for signs of trouble.</p>
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1307<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">They saw men conducting military exercises, studying maps and the terrain, practicing attacks near the fence, digging positions. All of it looked ominous to them but Israeli intelligence decided that these activities were not hostile. They were nothing more than training exercises.&nbsp;</p>
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1311<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Unit 414&#8217;s many warnings were ignored. On October 7, Unit 414 was defenseless. At least 15 of the young women were murdered, and seven were taken hostage.&nbsp;</p>
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1315<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Since that fateful day, we have learned that other nations warned Israel that Hamas was planning an attack.&nbsp;</p>
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1319<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/middleeast/netanyahu-report-warning-uae-hamas-attack-intl?cid=ios_app">reported</a> that Netanyahu was warned that Hamas was planning an attack, but did not pinpoint the date it would happen.&nbsp;</p>
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1323<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Two days after the massacre, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/">The Times of Israel reported</a> that Egyptian intelligence warned Israel that Hamas was planning a major attack. &#8220;Mounting questions over Israel’s massive intelligence failure to anticipate and prepare for a surprise Hamas assault were compounded Monday when an Egyptian intelligence official said that Jerusalem had ignored repeated warnings that the Gaza-based terror group was planning “something big” — which included an apparent direct notice from Cairo’s intelligence minister to the prime minister.&#8221;&nbsp;</p>
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1327<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The story appeared recently in The Atlantic magazine, which <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/09/egypt-israel-gaza-hamas-palestinian-october-7/688720/?gift=tLWikpZ9PpoiaIRm0Ef55p5YikiGbsUbaPSBXnPiAwE">reported that the chief of Egyptian intelligence </a>flew to Israel on September 26, 2023, to warn Netanyahu of Hamas&#8217; plans.</p>
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1331<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">In September 2026, the Associated Press reported that <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-hamas-war-gaza-warning-935c2cd82d3204d6dc859d296fc866e3">Netanyahu was warned by the United Arab Emirates</a> that an attack was imminent.</p>
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1335<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph"><em>Prime Minister <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/benjamin-netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> was directly warned by the president of the United Arab Emirates that <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war">Hamas</a> was planning a major offensive just days before the militant group <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-hostages-2-years-10-07-2025-6f19cb2eee5e05091c74f0e6f1bc356a">attacked on Oct. 7, 2023</a>, according to an Israeli newspaper report.</em></p>
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1339<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph"><em>UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed spoke with Netanyahu 10 days before the attack and said <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/yahya-sinwar">Yahya Sinwar</a>, the leader of Hamas in Gaza at the time, was planning an operation, the Haaretz daily said.&nbsp;</em></p>
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1343<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph"><em>Bin Zayed said it would lead to bloodshed and could destabilize the region and undermine the Abraham Accords, the normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab and Muslim-majority nations, the newspaper reported.</em></p>
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1346
1347<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph"><em>But Netanyahu “reacted with relative calm,” according to Haaretz, which said he assured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario and a possible attack was more likely to come from the occupied <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/west-bank">West Bank</a>.</em></p>
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1351<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Netanyahu denied the story. He denied all the stories. He knew nothing. Yet the border of Gaza was not reinfor
1351ced. Netanyahu shifted troops to the West Bank. Did he really know nothing?&nbsp;</p>
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1355<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Put the pieces together. Netanyahu had multiple warnings about a major attack. He did not bolster the military presence. He did not tell the organizers of &#8220;the Rave&#8221; to move their dance to a safer location. He did not warn the settlers to evacuate.&nbsp;</p>
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1359<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">He continues to use his narrative about October 7 to bomb and destroy what&#8217;s left of Gaza and to allow West Bank settlers to harass and attack Palestinians in their homes and to steal their property..&nbsp;</p>
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1363<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">The Israeli elections will be held on October 27. Netanyahu must be ousted.&nbsp; There should be a thorough public investigation of what he knew and when he knew it. In addition to the deaths that he is directly responsible for, he has made Israel a pariah nation. He should be held accountable for his crimes. Israel has a heavy burden to bear for the crimes he committed in Israel&#8217;s name. The good people, the generous people, the open-hearted Israelis must act to restore the Israel that so many of us once revered.&nbsp;</p>
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1367<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">PS: As Americans, we should be able to sympathize with Israel&#8217;s dilemma. We have an authoritarian President who ignores the Constitution, norms, and laws to show his power. He has killed countless Iranians in a pointless war. He has murdered scores of men on the high seas, claiming they were carrying drugs but offering no evidence. He shut down USAID, which supplies food and medicine to the neediest in the world; this caused the deaths of many thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa. He repeatedly tells the world that our elections&#8211;the centerpiece of our democracy&#8211;are rigged (is that a confession?) He has unleashed ICE to terrorize immigrants, some of whom have papers, and to kill people who committed no crime.</p>
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1371<p class="p2 wp-block-paragraph">Will we ever reclaim our reputation as a nation of laws? Will Israel?</p>
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1387		<h1><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/29/freddy-deboer-no-american-schools-are-not-failing/" rel="bookmark">Freddy DeBoer: No, American Schools Are Not Failing</a></h1>
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1392				<div class="timestamp"><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/29/freddy-deboer-no-american-schools-are-not-failing/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Freddy DeBoer: No, American Schools Are Not Failing">September 29, 2026</a> //</div> <div class="comment-bubble"><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/29/freddy-deboer-no-american-schools-are-not-failing/#comments">6</a></a></div>		<div class="clearboth"><!-- --></div>
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1399<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Freddy DeBoer <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/22/opinion/american-schools-failure-myth-scores/">challenges the oft-repeated claim</a> that American schools are failing. We have heard the same lament since 1983, when the Reagan administration published a pamphlet titled &#8220;A Nation at Risk.&#8221; That publication, the work of the National Commission on Educational Excellence, proclaimed that America&#8217;s schools, once the envy of the world, were caught in &#8220;a rising tide of mediocrity.&#8221; The report gathered every possible negative statistic about public schools and turned them into a 
1399jeremiad. </p>
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1403<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Governors formed task forces and agreed that what the nation needed most was lots more testing, which eventually turned schools into a cash cow for the testing industry. Worse, it made test scores the goal of education, not a measure. </p>
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1407<p class="wp-block-paragraph">George W. Bush&#8217;s No Child Left Behind law, passed in January 2002, made the pursuit of higher test scores a federal mandate, accompanied by harsh and punitive measures for schools that were unable to produce the ever higher test scores.</p>
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1411<p class="wp-block-paragraph">NCLB was followed by Obama&#8217;s equally punitive Race to the Top in 2010. Not only were schools targeted for not raising test scores, but individual teachers were singled out and punished. Schools were closed, teachers were fired, charter schools became a new panacea&#8211;which failed as panaceas tend to do. </p>
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1415<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Bush brothers&#8211;President George W. and Florida Governor Jeb&#8211;claimed that accountability was the ultimate key to success. </p>
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1419<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But in the absence of dramatic test score gains, Jeb and other Republicans decided that vouchers were the ultimate panacea: no accountability, just choose any school you want, be it religious, private, online, or homeschooling. Quality no longer mattered. Accountability no longer mattered (except for the majority of students who continued to enroll in public schools and continued to take the standardized tests). Just choice.</p>
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1423<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Go back to the beginning: that infamous report called &#8220;A Nation at Risk.&#8221; One of the staff members who wrote the report was a young man named James Harvey. In 2023, on the 40th anniversary of the release of that influential report, James Harvey wrote an article declaring that the conclusions of the report were vastly overstated. He wrote an article in <strong>The Washington Post</strong> about<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/04/26/how-nationatrisk-report-hurt-public-schools/"> &#8220;how we cooked the books.&#8221;</a></p>
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1427<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Freddy DeBoer probably didn&#8217;t read James Harvey&#8217;s brilliant and disturbing article. But he writes from the same perspective. Our public schools have been the target of a huge smear job. The smear was a fake. It was used to promote charter schools and vouchers. Many of our public schools are excellent. Some are in desperate need of desperate measures, like reduced class sizes, wraparound services for students and families. They are not worse than they used to be. Ninety percent of our population attended public schools. Their graduates created the most powerful nation in the world. Can we do better? Of course, especially for children with the greatest needs. Are public schools failing? No. </p>
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1431<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is what DeBoer thinks: </p>
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1435<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The belief that American public schools are an international embarrassment, sites of endless failure, is one of the few things our polarized political system seems to agree on. After all, the transition from George W. Bush’s presidential education policy to that of Barack Obama was one of remarkable continuity, based on a shared premise: Our schools were in a broad state of emergency. Today, politicians of both parties still tell that story, as do op-ed pages and nonprofit organizations and bipartisan cable panels. The notion has hardened into an axiom, a claim so familiar that the people making it no longer feel obligated to back it up with evidence. But we don’t have to buy this narrative, and we shouldn’t — because the evidence tells us that the narrative just isn’t true.</em></p>
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1439<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The best way to consider a country’s educational performance is in relation to the performance of international peers, and the most authoritative international benchmark is the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam, which tests 15-year-olds across 81 education systems. In the most recent results, from 2022, American students tested&nbsp;<a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/2024/CNU_508c.pdf">better in reading than 68 of the 80 other systems</a>&nbsp;
1439and well above the international average. In science, they bested 56 of 80. Math is our weakest subject, but even there we outscore 43 systems and tie with a dozen more, meaning that on our worst day we still do better than more than half the developed world. Our top performers look particularly good on the PISA; for example,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2022-results-volume-i-and-ii-country-notes_ed6fbcc5-en/united-states_a78ba65a-en.html">14 percent of American teenagers scored at the highest level in reading</a>, double the OECD average.&nbsp;</em></p>
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1443<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Some critics note that our education system is expensive and say that we should demand better results for our money. But this demand implies that there’s a straightforward relationship between per-pupil spending and test scores;&nbsp;<a href="https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wisdom-on-educational">decades of evidence demonstrate that there is not</a>. And the results show that we produce many sterling students for our money.GLOBE STAFF; ROB Z/ADOBE</em></p>
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1455<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>None of this is to deny that some American schools are in crisis. But those failures aren’t spread evenly across our system; they’re concentrated in a small number of places suffering from poverty, structural racism, and institutional decline. The United States has the highest child-poverty rate in the OECD (roughly a quarter of our children live in poverty, versus less than 10 percent in top-scoring nations like Finland and Denmark) and our socioeconomic and demographic stratification is pronounced. As such, our aggregate scores on assessments like PISA are weighed down disproportionately by disadvantaged students.&nbsp;</em></p>
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1463<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Imagine swapping the students of Detroit with those of wealthy Bloomfield Hills next door, where the schools have excellent performance metrics. Does anyone believe the students from Detroit would suddenly excel?&nbsp;</em></p>
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1467<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Simply shoveling money at urban schools is not the answer. In fact, poorer, higher-minority schools in the United States receive&nbsp;<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858419872445">significantly more per-pupil funding</a>&nbsp;than richer and whiter schools. As it stands, the teachers in the Detroit public school system are asked to achieve similar results to the ones in the Bloomfield system, despite the vast disparities in living and learning environments of the students they teach.&nbsp;</em></p>
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1475it is — and those extreme negative outliers are almost universally found in communities with intense socioeconomic challenges.</em></p>
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1479<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>This resolves a puzzle that has baffled pollsters for 40 years. American parents consistently rate the nation’s schools quite poorly while giving their own children’s schools high marks. Average grades for the American school system writ large typically fall in the C or D range, but more than three-quarters of parents typically give their own kids’ schools an A or B. Often this is regarded as a kind of cognitive bias, of irrationality on the part of those parents; surely, they must be viewing their own schools with rose-colored glasses, or so the conventional wisdom has long held. In fact, that attitude makes perfect sense when you reflect on the quantitative reality I’ve described: Most American K-12 schools and students really are doing quite well, which is reflected in the high marks parents give to their own local schools, but like all of us, parents have heard the relentless doomsaying about the country’s schools. Parents judge their own schools from direct experience and the national system from what they see on television. That is, on the question they actually know something about, about which they have the best evidence, they’re quite positive, and they have every reason to be.</em></p>
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1495<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>These efforts are both harder and more expensive than yet another round of complaining about teachers and their unions, but they have the advantage of potentially solving real problems. If we have a moral duty to improve our schools, as the school reformers insist, then that begins with a moral duty to tell the truth.</em></p>
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1523<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Robert Reich, who served as Labor Secretary during the Clinton Administration, issued a warning about the 2028 Democratic Primary primaries: <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb?r=rls8&amp;utm_medium=ios">Do not support Rahm Emanuel.</a></p>
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1543<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When he was Mayor of Chicago, he closed 50 public schools in a single day, throwing the lives of children, parents, communities, and staff into chaos.</p>
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1547<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He imagined he was doing them a favor but he was harming them. They were assigned to unfamiliar schools, had to walk through gang territory, lost friends, and suffered needless disruption. He boasted about helping them when in fact he treated the children and their families with disrespect. </p>
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1584				<div class="timestamp"><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/28/will-the-trump-administration-build-a-baseball-stadium-in-a-national-park/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Will the Trump Administration Build a Baseball Stadium in a National Park?">September 28, 2026</a> //</div> <div class="comment-bubble"><a href="https://dianeravitch.net/2026/09/28/will-the-trump-administration-build-a-baseball-stadium-in-a-national-park/#comments">13</a></a></div>		<div class="clearboth"><!-- --></div>
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1595<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The idea sounds crazy until you remember that Trump built an Ultimate fighting arena on the White House lawn so he could see several matches without having to travel.  </p>
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