chrisyarrell.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

Thank you Teddy—your brilliance and bravery are models for us all. www.comicsands.com/autistic-boy...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Claiming that 10 Commandments in school rooms is about teaching our nation's history rather than indoctrinating Christianity is a prime example of secular-washing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Some friday thoughts: schoolfinance101.com/2025/05/02/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Most clarifying question in today’s Supreme Court argument in religious charter school case was whether a state that hired contractors to paint secular landscape murals on government buildings should be forced to allow someone to paint a religious mural instead. 1/x

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Re-upping my summation of charter schools and the Lebron case (Amtrak): theconversation.com/what-is-a-ch...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

As SCOTUS hears oral arguments today, re-upping my recent piece @commondreams.org on what’s at stake within and beyond public education. www.commondreams.org/opinion/scot...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

edlawcenter.org/major-public...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Again the courts hold it up, but everything is uncertain.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

VICTORY in Tennessee: The state legislature did NOT pass a harmful bill that would have deprived students of their right to a public K-12 education based on their immigration status. This win is a testament to the families & advocates in Tennessee who fought ferociously to defend #EducationForAll.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

for alito especially, racism is fake, anti-LGBT bigotry is fake, and the only real discrimination is against conservative christians who can't make public school curriculum by decree

submitted 16 days ago • 55 comments

Important EdLaw thread - @drprestongreen.bsky.social @joshuaweishart.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

“”It's important to appreciate who is the right entity for making curricular decisions," Driver adds. "Is it the public school, or is it federal judges?"” www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Ever and always proud to be a #MacFellow. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I have a slightly insane idea to start cooking up federalism arguments in Harvard's defense as well. Fun fact: its existence and autonomy are literally written into the Massachusetts constitution malegislature.gov/Laws/Constit...

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

NEW: By a 4–3 vote, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Gov. Tony Evers' creative "veto" transforming a two-year school funding increase into a 400-year funding increase. Evers crossed out words, numbers, and hyphens to rewrite the law—legally, it turns out. www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...

submitted 20 days ago • 130 comments

My latest in Slate looks at the growing legal threats to Plyer v. Doe—and what its potential fall portends for public education and beyond.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I don't think I've ever seen someone speak about children (in this case, specifically Autistic kids) with such disgust and such disdain.

submitted 21 days ago • 285 comments

Vox's take on the religious charter school question: www.vox.com/scotus/40859...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Listen to the episode: crooked.com/podcast/scot... And get Deborah’s book! bookshop.org/p/books/divi...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Me & my @nyulaw.bsky.social colleague & work wife, @deborahnarcher.bsky.social, preparing to discuss her amazing book, Dividing Lines, @ the NY Historical Society. Predictably, Deborah, like her book, was absolutely fabulous! Also, check out the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social interview with Deborah!

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

“Andrew Crespo, a law professor at Harvard & general counsel of the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, said the admin’s policies are a pretext to chill universities & their faculties from engaging in speech, teaching & research that don’t align w/ Trump’s views.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you, @derekwblack.bsky.social, for your lead on this religious charter school amicus brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Joining with TC colleagues to say, among other things, that elite universities need to see and hopefully act in solidarity with K-12 educators and school systems in this moment we are all under attack.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A statement by Teachers College faculty. Please share widely " docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

You know who I also want answers from? The GOP Congress—just going along with the Trump-Musk cuts to kids and families www.freep.com/story/news/e...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Complicity and capitulation grow from the same craven vine and yield the same corrupt fruit.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

submitted 28 days ago • 180 comments

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

submitted 28 days ago • 171 comments

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

submitted 28 days ago • 607 comments

This is not parody. It is unwitting self-mockery, but it is real.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Ffs. These beliefs—apparently embraced by members of the Trump admin—are those of misogynists and misanthropes who treat sexism and callousness as credentials and points of pride.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Powerful allegations re: access barriers for students with disabilities at UCLA. Every university could use this complaint as a checklist—these problems are present on most campuses. dredf.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

ED’s letter encourages states & districts to reserve 3% of their Title I funds for Direct Student Services, positioning it as a move toward increased flexibility and school choice. But under existing regs, that 3% can't reduce current Title I funding levels. 1/2 www.k12dive.com/news/distric...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

It is undoubtedly true that the Administration is engaging in a shock & awe campaign through daily injustices to disable our feelings possibility & hope. But, in fact, this is backfiring. They are politicizing people, enraging them, and bringing us together in ways I didn’t think possible.

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

Who could have predicted it? Unless we stand up and say no, right now, the authoritarian will just keep coming and unlawfully destroy our civil society. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

A quote from Simi Linton’s Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity that’s stayed with me: “Our educational institutions…are, not alone but preeminently, the shapers and guardians of cultural memory and hence of cultural meanings.”

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I think folks on both the right and the left trying to retrofit a theory to Trump's actions really do miss the degree of not just thoughtlessness but outright resistance to thought that characterizes Trump and nearly everyone with whom he has chosen to surround himself.

submitted 33 days ago • 60 comments

New York Dept of Education says it will not comply with the US Dept of Ed's order to certify their schools are getting rid of DEI programs. "We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...

submitted 34 days ago • 85 comments

This is politics by extortion. K-12 schools are being forced to choose between getting the federal funding they need and throwing their students under the bus. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/04/03/t...

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Last Friday, Yale University fired our Deputy Director, Helyeh Doutaghi. I strongly oppose Yale’s decision. lpeproject.org/blog/stateme...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’

submitted 36 days ago • 371 comments