Whenever I want to learn about crime and policing, Rafa is my go to ⬇️

Many teachers say class is better when they get rid of the Chromebooks too. Multifunction devices guarantee distraction. We need distraction-free schools. No phones, no Chromebooks.

100% of all Oklahoma students take the ACT exam - and have some of the lowest scores in the nation. ❎40% meet ACT standard English benchmarks ❎15% meet ACT standard Math benchmarks ❎29% meet the Reading benchmarks, and ❎A shocking 83% fail to meet Science benchmarks

Millions of Americans with serious mental illness lack access to needed inpatient care, often ending up in jails, homeless encampments, or crowded, expensive, ERs. A major reason: a 1965 Medicaid rule that blocks coverage for most psychiatric hospitals. A new Manhattan Institute

Untreated serious mental illness fuels public disorder, violence, and human suffering. Keeping most psychiatric hospitals off-limits to Medicaid—without any clinical rationale—is a policy choice. It’s time to change it. Read the full report here: manhattan.institute/article/us-psy…

Well researched, thank you Carolyn D. Gorman for continuing to bang this drum. IMHO so many policy “experts” want us to forget about the IMD Exclusion but they have no skin in the game. Bravo 👏

Public education - even in deep blue San Francisco - is reforming itself after multiple losses at SCOTUS to focus on actual education and not indoctrination. SF schools to teachers: “keep your opinions out of the classroom.” What a novel concept Most-Mahmoud hold outs, take note

Superb reporting from Christina Buttons for CJ on an important and poorly covered topic--residential institutions from troubled teenagers.

I saw this line from an old gov procurement piece on IT and now I can't stop thinking about it: "Remember, this stuff depreciates faster than you can buy it" IT is a capital asset that loses value by the hour, yet we have IT programs that think in decades. Time is everything.