Mike DeGuire, Ph. D.
@deguire_mike
Public Education Advocate, https://www.a4pep.org/board Executive Coach, Proud Dad/Grandad, former Principal, Teacher, Reading Coordinator
Probably one of the best counterpoints to the excessive hyper attention to standardized testing data as the only way to measure student learning. The author gives realistic and relevant alternatives that need to be implemented by all school districts.
Standardized Tests Aren't the Only Meaningful Data on Student Achievement edweek.org/technology/opi…
Huge new study finds: people think AI will worsen almost everything they care about. By a 3-to-1 margin, they want more regulation. And they deeply distrust the big AI labs. Feels like we’re approaching a social tipping point. How long until the backlash against Big AI begins?
The Republican Party is destroying the Department of Education because it needs stupid people. By dismantling the hub of America’s access to education and replacing it with a rogue’s gallery of white nationalists, conspiracy theorists, and Bible-thumping cave people, the GOP is…
Waste fraud & abuse? Of the 50 charter schools that shut down or announced they will soon during 1st 1/2 of 2025, nearly half had received total of $102M in federal funds for start-up or expansion. networkforpubliceducation.org/wp-content/upl…
I will always fight for our public school students and teachers. After we went to court to challenge it, the Trump Administration backed down from their illegal action of withholding education funds. Last night, I discussed our work with @AliVelshi. msnbc.com/the-last-word/…
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.
Trump will fly on Air Force One to Scotland for a golf trip. He will spend the weekend at his golf club before attending the opening of a new golf course. This will cost taxpayers an estimated $10 million.
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” Aldous Huxley, July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963. Photo by George Platt Lynes
NYC PARENTS: Maybe you don’t care that AI is being thrust into NYC schools at breakneck speed but what about your child’s data being mined/surveilled + used to train AI without consent, notice or compensation? Particularly as Trump mandates AI must be programmed to be “anti-woke”
AI contract did NOT pass last night's PEP w/11 votes yes, 5 abstaining. Thnx to those abstaining: MBP rep Marielle Ali, QBP rep Shirley Aubin, Bkln BP rep Camille Casaretti, Bronx BP rep Rima Izquierdo & Queens parent rep Adriana Alicea. @read_naveed was absent cc @rimaleft
Set Public Education Free: Abolish the Accountability System | Voices Empower @Woodyboy2020 @lynnsdavenport @MaryDunlaphome @TXHilltoDieOn @jamestalarico @MarkGoloby voicesempower.com/set-public-edu…
Carl Sagan's prediction of America, made 30 years ago.
Democrats? Change direction? After failing over and over and over? Nah. jacobin.com/2025/07/democr…
Dark money and charter school backers are paying nearly $1 million into Bennet's race for Governor. The groups include "Colorado League of Charter Schools Action and the pro-charter nonprofit Denver Families for Public Schools." coloradosun.com/2025/07/18/the…
More than a dozen state bills — and three new laws mandating the Ten Commandments in public schools — are virtually identical to model legislation buff.ly/GodcLLH
"Public education is under attack—from the expansion of universal private school choice programs that are siphoning monies away from already cash-strapped public schools to the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the federal education department..."
Legal experts weigh in on the implications of the 2025 Supreme Court term for K-12 education brookings.edu/articles/legal…
Missouri: Legislature Bans Teacher Use of "Three Cueing" - Unqualified politicians ban Balanced Literacy to promote SoR. Science of Reading is the same failed Reading First program proven not to work. dianeravitch.net/2025/07/17/mis… via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
So many already live paycheck to paycheck, our healthcare system is completely broken. We need to end our reliance on for profit health insurance.
Colorado Division of Insurance warns health insurance rates could increase by 28% in 2026 coloradopolitics.com/news/colorado-…
This is the type of content we need. Experts speaking out against misinformation, making their voices heard as they shine a light on the Trump administration’s dangerous and destructive policies. Thank you dr.amybkillen (via IG)
This is an outrage. dianeravitch.net/2025/07/15/sco…