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"It was a comment he couldn't take back, even though he deleted the words and never sent the email. School administrators saw it within an hour because of a monitoring software installed on school laptops."
I've had challenging kids and have dealt with school systems that don't give a fuck about protecting kids. They just hide behind the rules once they've decide you're a bad kid. I really feel for this guy. HE DIDN'T EVEN SEND THE EMAIL?!? Just p…

Uvalde CISD closes schools after ransomware attack on district systems
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/uvalde-school-district-closure-ransomware-attack-21046532.php

This fall, Texas requires public schools to display the 10 commandments in classrooms.
I’ve made a PDF that largely conforms to the specifications required by Texas SB10, and you can download a printable (I recommend a color printer) version you can print out, frame or laminate, and donate.
Get the PDF: https://p…

Aristo tabletop pocket calculator. It was used in schools to teach the usage of pocket calculators. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #classiccomputing2025

Charter schools are a money grab designed to destroy public education. An excuse to shovel public money into the pockets of people with big ideas about education that mostly don't work.
The irony is that the one thing almost all critics of education agree on is that too much money is spent on administrative/managerial staff. https://

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 534 nodes and 12812 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Not sure about this...
Microsoft To Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0012220/microsoft-to-provide-free-ai-tools-for-washington-state-schools

An aspect of #ClimateLiteracy that isn't normally considered, and maybe should be.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

An aspect of #ClimateLiteracy that isn't normally considered, and maybe should be.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs.
She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.
She calls it “the final mission.”
But the department is not behaving like an agency that is simply winding down.
Even as McMahon has shrunk the Department of Education,
she’s operated in what she calls
“a parallel universe”
to radically shift how children will learn for years to come.…

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazil-serves-potentially-contaminated-shark-meat-to-children-in-public-schools/…

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools
Brazil has ordered at least 5,600 metric tons of potentially contaminated shark meat to serve in schools and other public institutions since 2004, a Mongabay investigation has revealed. Shark meat tends to have higher concentrations of toxic heavy metals, as top predators accumulate contaminants like mercury from lower down in the food chain. The contaminants […]

Cyberattacks against schools driven by a rise in student hackers, ICO warns https://therecord.media/cyberattacks-against-schools-driven-by-student-hackers

12 colleges stacked with NFL draft talent: Why scouts are watching Penn State, Clemson this season https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/45915161/2026-nfl-draft-prospect-heavy-college-teams-penn-state-clemson-…

"Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters"
#Spain #Climate #ClimateChange #Education

In Bangladesh's flooded plains, solar-powered boat-schools keep learning afloat @Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladeshs-flooded-plains-schools-boats-keep-learning-afloat-2025-10-07/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203pedz58go
Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns

Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns
The Information Commissioner's Office says schools face an "insider threat" from children as young as seven.

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 246 nodes and 4498 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Der Angriff auf Wissen(schaft): ein guter Überblick über die Entwicklung drüben, aber ob man in der Überschrift nun wirklich auf das finstere Mittelalter rekurrieren musste? Je mehr ich über den Maga-Wahn lese, desto mehr fühle ich mich an die chinesische Kulturrevolution erinnert. Aber auch der Vergleich hinkt natürlich.

A survey of 1,000 ninth through 12th grade US students finds that nearly one in five say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI (Lee V. Gaines/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/08/nx-s1-5561981/ai-students-schools-teachers

Not vegan yet? Watch Gary Yourofsky's videos and go vegan! #AnimalRights

Gary Yourofsky
This is the official YouTube channel of vegan animal liberation activist, Gary Yourofsky. Gary has given 2,660 lectures to more than 60,000 people at 186 schools in 30 states and several Israeli cities/schools, including the U. of Alabama, U. of Florida and Georgia Tech. His main lecture (2010 at Georgia Tech) has been translated into more than 30 languages for over 10 million YouTube hits. Activists in Israel created the Hebrew website GARY-TV.com and convinced two major vegan companies to …

Real Schools Of Thought With Adam Voigt
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

https://www.alxnow.com/2025/09/05/alexandria-city-high-school-students-stage-walkout-protesting-gun-violence-in-schools/

Alexandria City High School students stage walkout protesting gun violence in schools | ALXnow
Hundreds of Alexandria City High School students held a walkout on Friday, Sept. 5, demonstrating againt gun violence in schools. The walkout at ACHS's King Street and Minnie Howard campuses started at 11:30 a.m., and lasted for less than a half hour. The demonstrations are part of a national walkout, were organized by Titans Demand

DHS says ICE does not target schools (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/dhs-ice-schools-immigration-trump-administration
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p84#a250909p84

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents.
Ethnic cleansing is what it looks like.
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-09-26/des-moines-public-schools-…

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents
The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, according to DMPS Board Chair Jackie Norris.

How come children killed in schools are "killed" or "murdered" but scum like C. Kirk are "assassinated"?

Wow, it's finally Friday, and don't leave for the weekend until you've checked out today's Metacurity for the top infosec news you should know, including
--Apple sent a new round of spyware notifications to affected users,
--Akira is exploiting critical flaw in SonicWall,
--Vietnamese government warns of National Credit Information Center hack,
--UK ICO warns that kids are hacking their schools,
--Opposition to EU Chat Control scanning of encrypte…

Apple sent a new round of spyware notifications to affected users
Akira is exploiting critical flaw in SonicWall, Vietnamese government warns of National Credit Information Center hack, UK ICO warns that kids are hacking their schools, Opposition to EU Chat Control scanning of encrypted messages grows, New infostealer dubbed ModStealer stays invisible, much more

Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually,
a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas and among the top in the nation.
Valere Public Schools Superintendent Salvador Cavazos’ compensation to run three campuses in Austin, Corpus Christi and Brownsville
exceeds the less than $450,000 that New York City’s chancellor makes …

This charter school superintendent makes $870,000. He leads a district with 1,000 students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.

Mitigating Language Barriers in Education: Developing Multilingual Digital Learning Materials with Machine Translation
Lucie Pol\'akov\'a, Martin Popel, V\v{e}ra Kloudov\'a, Michal Nov\'ak, Mariia Anisimova, Ji\v{r}\'i Balhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09473

Mitigating Language Barriers in Education: Developing Multilingual Digital Learning Materials with Machine Translation
The EdUKate project combines digital education, linguistics, translation studies, and machine translation to develop multilingual learning materials for Czech primary and secondary schools. Launched through collaboration between a major Czech academic institution and the country's largest educational publisher, the project is aimed at translating up to 9,000 multimodal interactive exercises from Czech into Ukrainian, English, and German for an educational web portal. It emphasizes the developme…

Uh-huh, OK, makes sense, hm... that the heck, Germans and a few others? But wait... what's that? What?! Now that's just plain weird, Denmark! What are you thinking?
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/posts/education/grading-systems-in-european-s…

Grading systems in European schools
Grading systems in European schools

These Activists Want To Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-10-08/these-activists-want-dismantle-public-schools-now-they-run-education-department

🚔 School police may harm children rather than protect from sexual violence
#school

School police may harm children rather than protect from sexual violence
Police officers in schools may be doing more harm than good when tackling harmful sexual behavior (HSB)—with girls affected by sexual harm particularly badly served—according to new research from the University of Surrey.

In schools, it's pretty common to use a "locked-down browser" (eg, during tests) on Chromebooks. I was more surprised to hear from my kid that this also exists on MacOS. How does this work? Does it use Lockdown Mode? How is an app able to enable this, instead of the user?

Ryan Flournoy is making a strong case for WR3 spot https://insidethestar.com/ryan-flournoy-is-making-a-strong-case-for-wr3-spot

A Humanoid Social Robot as a Teaching Assistant in the Classroom
Thomas Sievers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05646 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05646

A Humanoid Social Robot as a Teaching Assistant in the Classroom
Although innovation and the support of new technologies are much needed to ease the burden on the education system, social robots in schools to help teachers with educational tasks are rare. Child-Robot Interaction (CRI) could support teachers and add an embodied social component to modern multi-modal and multi-sensory learning environments already in use. The social robot Pepper, connected to the Large Language Model (LLM) ChatGPT, was used in a high school classroom to teach new learning cont…

The province of Alberta pauses its broad ban on books depicting sex or "inappropriate" topics in schools, after backlash from authors including Margaret Atwood (Vjosa Isai/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/world/canada/a…

Alberta Backs Off on School Library Book Ban
Alberta ordered schools to pull “inappropriate” books, but paused its plan after a large school district banned scores of books in an apparent effort to make a point.

Tell me again how 'AI is going to revolutionise education' when roughly a quarter of primary schools globally don't even have electricity, toilets, drinking water, and basic WASH facilities.
It's 1925 in 2025 for 25% of schools in the world.
#Education #GlobalEducation

Schools service scoops heritage award for The National Archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/schools-service-scoops-heritage-award-for-the-national-archives/

Schools service scoops heritage award for The National Archives - The National Archives
Educators at The National Archives have won a prestigious prize for their history workshops. The team, all trained teachers, won The Sandford Award for Heritage Learning 2025. They bring alive history using maps, drawings, wills, censuses, illustrations and other records from around 26 million documents held at The National Archives in Kew. Sessions based on […]

AI in Pakistani Schools: Adoption, Usage, and Perceived Impact among Educators
Syed Hassan Raza, Azib Farooq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25293 https://arxiv…

AI in Pakistani Schools: Adoption, Usage, and Perceived Impact among Educators
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly permeating classrooms worldwide, yet its adoption in schools of developing countries remains under-explored. This paper investigates AI adoption, usage patterns, and perceived impact in Pakistani K-12 schools based on a survey of 125 educators. The questionnaire covered educator's familiarity with AI, frequency and modes of use, and attitudes toward AI's benefits and challenges. Results reveal a generally positive disposition towards AI: over two-thi…

This is the dreck they want to foist off on WA schools???
In Copilot In Excel Demo, AI Told Teacher a 27% Exam Score Is of No Concern - Slashdot
https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/12/0328228/in-copilot-in-excel-demo-ai-told-teacher-a-27-exam-score-is-of-no-concern

Inside the Parent-Led Movement For Phone-Free Schools (Charlotte Alter/Time)
https://time.com/7307163/parent-movement-phone-free-schools/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p3#a250805p3

"On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which the federal government created to honour 'the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities,' members of the Active History editorial collective offer suggestions on scholarship and resources they have found helpful in their own work and learning journeys."

On the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued its final report on the history of residential schools in Canada. Mandated to “inform all Canadians about what happened in reside…

sanba: An R Package for Bayesian Clustering of Distributions via Shared Atoms Nested Models
Francesco Denti, Laura D'Angelo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09758 https://

sanba: An R Package for Bayesian Clustering of Distributions via Shared Atoms Nested Models
Nested data structures arise when observations are grouped into distinct units, such as patients within hospitals or students within schools. Accounting for this hierarchical organization is essential for valid inference, as ignoring it can lead to biased estimates and poor generalization. This article addresses the challenge of clustering both individual observations and their corresponding groups while flexibly estimating group-specific densities. Bayesian nested mixture models offer a princi…

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

I get immensely distressed when I see students building a little nest for themselves in just one proverbial corner of campus. Perhaps my most common advising conversation is “You do not need to take 3 classes at once in this department. What about <<category you’ve never studied>>?”
(Macalester is a liberal arts college, so our curriculum is carefully calibrated such that there is •room• for students to touch many disciplines. That’s the point. Yes, there are other kinds of schools where do you have to take almost all your classes in one dept. I am leery of that.)

Federal judge rules that Harvard’s free speech rights violated as Trump admin used “antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on the countries premier universities.” Other Ivy League schools that settled without a fight back completely humiliated. https://

Public school districts such as Dayton’s are responsible for transporting students who attend private and charter schools.
When they fail to do so, they risk fines of millions of dollars.
A shortage of drivers and buses
combined with the threat of fines, means that
🆘 public school districts in Dayton and around Ohio find themselves relegating their own students to the back of the transportation line.
“I’m going to have to use Uber,
and it’s going to cost …

Assessing the Influence of Locational Suitability on the Spatial Distribution of Household Wealth in Bernalillo County, NM
Onyedikachi J. Okeke, Uloma E. Nelson, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Olumide O. Oladoyin, Emmanuel Kubuafor, Dennis Baidoo, Titilope Akinyemi, Adedoyin S. Ajeyomi, Rekiya A. Idris, Isaac A. Fabunmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11048

Assessing the Influence of Locational Suitability on the Spatial Distribution of Household Wealth in Bernalillo County, NM
This study applies Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR) to examine the spatial determinants of household wealth in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The model incorporates sociodemographic, environmental, and proximity-based variables to evaluate how locational suitability influences economic outcomes. Key factors considered include income, home value, elevation, PM2.5 concentration, and distances to essential services such as schools, markets, and hospitals. The MGWR model demonst…

Nearly Half Of UK Parents Support More Plant-Based Meals In Schools, Says Survey #plantbased

Nearly Half Of UK Parents Support More Plant-Based Meals In Schools, Says Survey
A survey by ProVeg and YouGov found that nearly half of UK parents support an increase in the availability of plant-based meals in schools

Trump vows to protect prayer rights in public schools
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5491792-trump-education-department-prayer-public-schools-religious-liberty/

Simple task: Which days of class should go on my syllabus?
❌ 4o-mini: shortened Nov break
❌ 4o: omitted days in Aug, Dec
✅ o3
❌ Claude 3-haiku: extended Oct break
❌ Claude 3.5 Sonnet V2: ext Oct br
✅ Claude 3.7 Sonnet
❌ Claude 4 Sonnet: extended Oct break
This is really unreliable AI performance.
#generativeAI

"We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year. "
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849

Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Petition launches for Rutgers to disband school's TPUSA chapter (Rachel del Guidice/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/petition-launches-rutgers-disband-schools-tpusa-chapter
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p108#a251008p108

Russia attacks Ukrainian schools, hospitals, and churches, but that is not enough cruelty to satiate their Orcish hungers.
Putin tries to restart the nuclear reactors in Zaporizhzhia, after having destroyed the vital electric lines needed to cool the reactors.
This is ecological terror and extortion, a monstrous act befitting the most perverse and cruel little fiend the world has known since Hitler.
Of course, Trump loves him and refuses to do anything real to stop him.

While reinforcements to Ukraine slow down, Russia changes tactics but not targets
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 246 nodes and 4498 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

👩‍🏭College is not for every student. How schools are steering them to high-demand jobs
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-15/getting-students-moving-toward-the-strategic-entry-level-jo…

College is not for every student. How schools are steering them to high-demand jobs
Los Angeles Unified's "Earn & Learn" summer program pays students as they are introduced to vocational skills in high-demand jobs.

"Nearly a quarter of MPs and half of the House of Lords were privately educated, and that was also true of half of newspaper columnists – up 7 percentage points since 2019 – 47% of political commentators and 45% of podcasters"
https://www.theguar…

"87 per cent of UK schools in toxic air zones, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Schools #Education

87 per cent of UK schools in toxic air zones, study finds
More than 25,000 British schools are in areas exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines

New York city to ban all processed meats in hospitals, schools and shelters https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/new-york-city-to-ban-all-processed-meats-in-hospitals-schools-and-shelters

New York city to ban all processed meats in hospitals, schools and shelters — Species Unite
Mayor Eric Adams is determined to promote healthy eating among New Yorkers, having turned his own life around after adopting a plant-based diet.

Schools are next for Flock Safety’s automatic license place reader cameras https://therecord.media/flock-safety-raptor-technologies-schools-surveillance

Long ago when I was in high school - and a thing that I am sure has not changed - is that it is a world of whirling hormones, fears, and anxieties.
At my high school there were "clubs" that pretty much assured that the members would be treated as outcasts - for instance joining the ROTC was a short road to social, and sexual, exclusion.
So here is Oklahoma trying to establish "Turning Point" clubs at all high schools. Membership would create an invisible ball…

Trump Administration to Require Universities to Submit Data on Applicants' Race (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/us/politics/trump-schools-race-data.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p161#a250807p161

Ex-Oklahoma Schools Chief Had "Ghost Employee" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/ex-oklahoma-schools-chief-had-ghost-employee/

South Korean lawmakers pass a bill to ban using mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools nationwide, starting 2026 (Choe Sang-Hun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/world/asia/south-korea-school…

South Korea Outlaws Use of Smartphones During Class
It becomes the latest country to restrict phone use in schools, with a law that will go into effect in 2026.

A provision in the recently passed Wisconsin state budget that diverts $2.2 million annually from schools to fund 12 Milwaukee County prosecutors may violate the Wisconsin Constitution.
The positions had previously been paid for with federal funding that is set to expire.
The budget act redirects all traffic fines and forfeiture revenues in Milwaukee County to the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office to fund 12 positions.

State Budget Shifts Money from Schools to Milwaukee Prosecutors
$2.2 million per year diverted from city schools could violate state constitution.

12 colleges stacked with NFL draft talent: Why scouts are watching Penn State, Clemson this season https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/45915161/2026-nfl-draft-prospect-heavy-college-teams-penn-state-clemson-…

The advantage to having Harvard alums (like Mailman) working for your fashy administration is that they know that the only thing that will hurt Harvard even more than a shakedown for half a billion dollars is … this line.

Snapshot of Tudor England in Henry VIII’s ‘Domesday’ https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/snapshot-of-tudor-england-in-henry-viiis-domesday/

Snapshot of Tudor England in Henry VIII’s ‘Domesday’ - The National Archives
The National Archives is helping make accessible a financial survey of the Church ordered by Henry VIII after his break with Rome. His inspectors counted 8,000 parish churches, 650 monasteries, 22 cathedrals and numerous chapels, chantries, colleges, schools, hospitals and poor houses as they travelled the length and breadth of England and Wales in 1535. […]

114,000 schools in the United States.
Deploying a single National Guardsman costs ~$530/day.
Or ~$60 million a day, or for a 180 day school year more than $10 billion dollars.
#USpol

PragerU: 'This is hell': Critics pounce on White House's 'preferred alternative' to PBS in schools - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/prageru-in-schools-critics-hell/

A Possibility Frontier Approach to Diverse Talent Selection
Neil Natarajan, Kadeem Noray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06119 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06119

A Possibility Frontier Approach to Diverse Talent Selection
Organizations (e.g., talent investment programs, schools, firms) are perennially interested in selecting cohorts of talented people. And organizations are increasingly interested in selecting diverse cohorts. Except in trivial cases, measuring the tradeoff between cohort diversity and talent is computationally difficult. Thus, organizations are presently unable to make Pareto-efficient decisions about these tradeoffs. We introduce an algorithm that approximates upper bounds on cohort talent and…

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

Trump Administration to Require Universities to Submit Data on Applicants’ Race - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/us/politics/trump-schools-race-data.html

PEN America warns that book bans in public schools have become "rampant and common", with 3,750 titles banned in 87 districts during the 2024-25 school year (Elizabeth A. Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/books/book-bans-pen-america.html…

‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Now Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns
A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states.

A look at AI adoption across US schools and colleges, as tech companies invest in AI education initiatives, including partnerships with major teachers' unions (Vauhini Vara/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 238 nodes and 3755 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights Finds Denver Public Schools Violated Title IX (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-finds-denver-public-schools-violated-title-ix
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p3#a250829p3

Texas AG Ken Paxton calls for prayer time in schools
https://thehill.com/homenews/5482710-texas-ken-paxton-prayer-time-schools/

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America https://www.404media.co/help-us-investigate-book-bans-and-educational-censorship-around-america/

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

After a shooting ICE agents get increased protection while children in schools get thoughts and prayers.
https://bsky.app/profile/allchronology.com/post/3lzv3fvz3cs24

Blue Chronicle (@allchronology.com)
After a shooting ICE agents get increased protection while children in schools get thoughts and prayers.

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

Fairfax, Arlington schools sue Department of Education over transgender policy dispute
https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-arlington-schools-sue-department-of-education-transgender-dispute-lawsuit-virginia-linda-mcmahon-doe-aps-fcps-locker-gender

ICE director says agents won't be at D.C. schools on the first day -- but may be going forward (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-schools-first-day-washington-dc-immigration-agents-todd-lyons-rcna226516
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p142#a250822p142

Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/purgatory-gores-swatting-us-universities/

This Is the Group That's Been Swatting US Universities
WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools.

Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates
Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday announced plans to end all state vaccine mandates,
including for children to attend schools,
which would make it the first state to completely withdraw from a practice credited with boosting vaccination rates and controlling the spread of infectious diseases.

Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so
Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo criticized school vaccine mandates, which every state has, and likened them to slavery.

Trump's Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/harvard-trump-brown.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p20#a250805p20

The Education Department has cut off funding for campus-based child care at over a dozen colleges,
accusing the schools of conflicting with the Trump administration’s polices by teaching young children about gender and race or prioritizing diversity in hiring.

Grants from the Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program are a critical source of money for public colleges that educate large populations of students with limited financial means.
The $80 million …

Trump administration cuts grants for child care on college campuses
The Education Department has cut off funding for campus-based child care at over a dozen colleges, objecting to child care providers teaching young children about gender and race.

Loudoun schools suspend boys uncomfortable with biological female student in locker room (Nick Minock/WJLA-TV)
https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-schools-suspend-boys-students-stone-bridge-high-school-sexual-harassment-female-school-locker-room-discrimination-bathroom-title-ix-investigation-gender-identity-policy-8040-education
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p135#a250818p135

Only a third of US states require sexual education in schools to be medically accurate | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/us-schools-sex-ed-requirements-b2812756.html

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David Barton isn’t just a primary pitchman for the Ten Commandments law in Texas
His fingerprints appear on 28 bills that have cropped up before the legislatures in 18 states this year.
A data analysis of the bills exposes how their language, structure and requirements are inherently identical.
In dozens of instances, they match model legislation pitched by Barton verbatim.
At the Texas hearing, Barton’s eyes fixated on the cover of the rare 1782 Aitken Bible.
…

28 Bills, Ten Commandments and 1 Source: A Christian Right ‘Bill Mill’
More than a dozen state bills — and three new laws mandating the Ten Commandments in public schools — are virtually identical to model legislation.

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Understaffing in special education harms student support | AFRO American Newspapers
https://afro.com/understaffed-special-education-schools/

Trump’s Department of Education has announced that it will partner with right-wing think tanks and organizations to develop a new curriculum for “patriotic education” in American classrooms.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration redirected $137 million initially meant for programs aimed at minority students toward what it described as “American history and civics education.”
Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced Wednesday that the money will be directed toward discret…

Trump Ed Dept. Partners With Right-Groups to Spread White-Washed Civics Lessons in 'Schools Across the Nation' | Common Dreams
The Department of Education has announced a new initiative to instill "patriotic education" across the US by giving grants to schools that adopt a US history curriculum written by MAGA-aligned groups like PragerU and Turning Point USA.

The Strange and Unexpected Alliance to Ban Phones in Schools (Jonathan Martin/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/02/school-cellphone-ban-jonathan-haidt-00539004
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p14#a250902p14

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Trump, emboldened by a Republican party that appears willing to let their leader do whatever he wants,
is now threatening to send troops to Democratic-run cities including Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco and New York City,
prompting outcry and accusations of abuse of power.
“He’s really planning a military, repressive force, to go out into the streets of the places that are most likely to resist his dictatorship and to just put down the whole thing by force.”