Does anyone have a great handy-man/GC in Seattle? My tactic of using command strips to hang a light fixture when I couldn't drill into the wall only lasted for 2 days 🫠 Time to bring in a professional.

Thinking back to 18 months ago when I couldn't convince people to worry less about teacher shortages and to think a little more about the possibility of looming budget tightening and/or loosening labor markets.

Kind of feels like burying the lede when 3 years ago we were missing a MILLION kids, then a quarter million— maybe something like… “95% of students have returned to school since pandemic enrollment depression”

Middle school teachers are extremely strong individuals.

Tap dancing on the grave of DEI while women and people of color are wildly overlooked and under funded in tech is not a good look tbh.

One of the admins in my elementary school had this thumbtacked above her desk and I think about it all the time. Don't ask me why I remember this from, at least, 23 years ago; almost too on the nose with this story.

So excited abt this work from 2 board members of our soon-to-launch org. #2 in thread is key: "[the money matters debate] is not very useful for policy. So in this paper we ask: It depends on what? We focus on *what* the money is spent on and *for whom* it is spent." Worth a read

Imagine having “nine figures” to invest in Baltimore and you decide the best use of your money “to help” is to buy a media outlet. Not funding business incubators, helping commercialize tech out of research institutions, or creating a foundation to support community development.

Today begins a new era for Allovue businesswire.com/news/home/2024…

We’re excited to announce that we have completed the acquisition of @AllovueBalance, a leading provider of #K12 financial budgeting and planning software in the U.S. Read the full details on this exciting announcement here >> bit.ly/4aXU0R7

Our 2nd Annual Education Finance Survey is available now! Really giving new meaning to "read it and weep" to be honest but we've all got our work cut out for us in the ed finance world! allovue.com/study

Every Republican and every single Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives just voted to pass a weighted student funding formula. Should the Senate follow, low income, ELL, and SpEd students will be meaningfully recognized in the way the state funds public schools.

I can't wait for all the headlines about the big increase of FY22 K-12 spending that completely fail to mention that the increase is primarily driven by the ESSER dollars that previous headlines fretted were unspent... census.gov/library/storie…