Lisa Snell

Our chairman @Dyrnwyn takes on the discriminatory school zones that determine the fate of New York kids...and that echo the racist redlining policies of the 1930s.

Why won’t Mamdani take on educational redlining? Neighborhood school zoning has its origins in the 1930s practice of residential discrimination, writes Derrell Bradford on.wsj.com/4lIm80o

.@NYSEDNews Commish Betty Rosa and the Bd of Regents should investigate overlap between public school enrollment zones and racist housing "redlines" to ensure all kids get a shot, @Available2All Pres. Tim DeRoche tells @poozer87 on @CapPressRoom. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rep…

Arizona's SNAP program, administered by the state, has an error rate of 8.4%, which could require AZ taxpayers to pay a $200MM penalty. AZ ESA program costs taxpayers less than a student enrolled in traditional public school, with a misspending rate of ~2% & only 0.3% fraud.

AI accelerationists need a better pitch than "Don't worry, you'll be able to go on welfare"

OH MY GOD OK IT'S HAPPENING

NY’s public-school zones are nearly identical to the infamous government “redlining” used a century ago to discriminate against minority neighborhoods when it came to housing, a new report from @Available2All says. nypost.com/2026/03/09/us-… Via @nypost @ccampy @NYSEDNews

Stand Together Trust at SXSW EDU 2026 open.substack.com/pub/permission…

100 percent here. Classical Education Depends on Classical Liberalism, by @AdamPeshek open.substack.com/pub/permission…

What’s often overlooked is that, in many cases of homeschool abuse, the parents have in fact been investigated by the state—often repeatedly and years before the child even leaves public school. Homeschooling regulations will do little, if anything, to help these kids and perhaps more attention should be given to what’s wrong with CPS.

Enrollment vs. Staffing in California’s public schools

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in trainings"

The great ⁦@ColleenHroncich⁩ and ⁦@NealMcCluskey⁩ break down the growing taxonomy of new school options. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cat…

Arkansas’ open enrollment law soared to 2nd best nationwide, getting an A+ grade in @ReasonFdn’s new report: public Schools without Boundaries 2025. This ranks and grades the open enrollment laws in all 50 states. reason.org/open-enrollmen…

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New @reason Interview: @LetGrowOrg's cofounder Lenore Skenazy (@FreeRangeKids) tells me how we criminalized childhood and why parents need to leave their kids alone more. Also explains her new @TEDTalks appearance. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how…

I wrote a letter to a @USATODAY opinion forum and they accepted it. My responses to their questions are pasted below. Interestingly, me and other respondents agree on the point that parent involvement in education is key -- it just seems like we differ in exactly how much involvement (or direction) we're comfortable with. ***** My child has autism, so the convenience that other parents may feel from a simple school bus drop-off or pickup is not what I want or need. I want the school to be welcoming of parents, to be more of a small community, and collaborative. Educating my child is my responsibility, and I'm partnering with whatever school I send him to, and I want everyone to feel that way. It might have made sense 100 years ago to carve school assignments up by geography and use property taxes to pay for it, but it seems very antiquated today. People want a variety of options, and one school will never cater to all needs. Schools get stronger when everyone is there because they want to be ‒ not because they are compelled to be. For years, public schools complained of overcrowding; now they're complaining because schools and classes are getting smaller. Is there an optimal funding, enrollment and staffing level? We already spend more per pupil than most other industrialized nations. People are having fewer kids and are recognizing that their kids need different things. Outcomes are relative. Anyone with more than one kid knows that each is unique and needs something different. Some do well in large schools, some don't. Some do well with tech, some don't. Some need more character education, some need more hard skills. Education is as complicated as religion, and trying to boil it down to the governance or tax status seems odd. I mostly went to a low-cost, religious private school. I was rebellious and wanted to go to a public high school. My parents didn't let me. I think I got a good education − probably better than the school I wanted to go to − but education is what you make of it. If you don't have personal responsibility, motivation or interest, you're not going to learn in any type of school. Education is framed as if it's a conveyor belt, and if you miss a section, you're doomed. It's an industrial view of education that should have gone out of fashion decades ago. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

"People want a variety of options, and one school will never cater to all needs. Schools get stronger when everyone is there because they want to be ‒ not because they are compelled to be." -@AdamPeshek in @usatodayopinion

Our 2025 National Hybrid Schools Survey report is out. You should read it! @KSUHybridSchool kennesaw.edu/coles/centers/… Here's one preview bit...

Grateful for the chance to publish this piece in @the74. Could be a dangerous time for K12 districts.