@jeffbcdm

Independent advocacy journalist covering education policy and politics since 2011 and Lead Education Fellow at The Progressive magazine. [email protected]

 Chapel Hill, NC
Joined September 2008
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ICYMI: Charter schools and a federal school voucher program launching in 2027 will create more opportunity for private equity investors to raid public education funding. MT @davidsirota @LeverNews progressive.org/public-schoo…

How School Choice Opens the Door for Private Equity

Charter school projects and a new federal voucher program make K-12 schools the next public service target of private investors.

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Private equity destroys everything it touches, so why would we let it anywhere near education? @jeffbcdm reports: progressive.org/public-schoo…

How School Choice Opens the Door for Private Equity

Charter school projects and a new federal voucher program make K-12 schools the next public service target of private investors.

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Edu-Grift Top 5: Ranking Charter School Financial Grift by Magnitude schoolfinance101.com/2026/09…

Edu-Grift Top 5: Ranking Charter School Financial Grift by Magnitude

Five cases, four mechanisms, one ranking: this post lines up the biggest fraud prosecutions, the biggest company-store combination, and the biggest sweeps contract in the charter sector’s his…

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Thomas Ultican@tulticanSep 7
The Charter Money Trail - It looks like its designed to maximize profits not education. schoolfinance101.com/2026/09… #Privatization #Privatization

The Charter Money Trail

Following public dollars through a traditional school district is, by comparison, straightforward. District budgets are public record. Board meetings are open. Every dollar of state and local reven…

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Jeff Bryant: Did the Big Teachers' Protest Rally in 2011 Make a Difference? - The right wing’s “long game” to end public education continues. dianeravitch.net/2026/09/03/… via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters

Jeff Bryant: Did the Big Teachers’ Protest Rally in 2011 Make a Difference?

Jeff Bryant, prolific education journalist, writes in The Progressive about the efforts by educators to fight back against the failed and punitive policies of No Child Left Behind and Race to the T…

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My reflection on 15 years of education politics finds that schools continue to be harmed because the progressive left hasn't done the homework and taken the initiative to voice full-throated support for public schools. progressive.org/magazine/the…

The Lesson of America’s Broken Education Politics

Fifteen years ago, thousands of teachers marched on Washington to protest the Obama-era push to privatize public education. Has anything changed?

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Bruce Lesley@BruceLesleyAug 6
School privatization in Florida.
Chris Nelson 🏝️🇺🇸
@ReOpenChrisAug 5
Listen to parents who were screwed by Erika Donalds.
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As local govts face fiscal pressure from huge SNAP & healthcare cuts in last yr's reconciliation law, some states are cutting #propertytaxes-the main revenue source for 90% of local govts. Instead, states shd target prop tax breaks & fund rental assistance cbpp.org/blog/more-states-je…
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When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this corrupt system.
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ICYMI my newest on how the right-wing plan to dismantle public schools is faring is now also at @LAProgressive laprogressive.com/education-…

The Conservative ‘Plan’ to Dismantle Public Schools Enters Home Stretch

The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education.

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My newest reveals what's behind a rash of new legislation in, mostly, red states calling for capping or eliminating property taxes. It's not about "affordability" as proponents are claiming. znetwork.org/znetarticle/the…

The Conservative 'plan' to Dismantle Public Schools is Entering the Home Stretch

In what is being touted as the “Golden Age of School Choice,” the option that is most popular with American families—to fund and attend their

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My new: "In a political system that is increasingly indifferent to the daily needs and struggles of families and sees individuals’ worth only in economic terms—or, as in the case of education, their test scores—the alternative is community schools" progressive.org/public-schoo…

Community Schools Are at the Forefront of a ‘Neighborism’ Movement

Public schools in New York City’s network of community schools offer an alternative to top-down systems that are indifferent to the needs of working families.

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Really helpful new data @JoannaMLeFebvre @CenterOnBudget extends what researchers have known since the early 00’s Most voucher users were never in public school. These are subsidies for existing choices. And add new costs for states.
Joanna LeFebvre@JoannaMLeFebvreApr 27
Lawmakers in other states should follow the lead of those in FL, GA, LA, MS, & SC who are reconsidering costly private #schoolvouchers as state budgets tighten. Lawmakers should reprioritize funding for public schools serving 90% of this nation's students. cbpp.org/blog/as-budgets-tig…

As Budgets Tighten, Some State Lawmakers Reconsider Costly Private School Vouchers

In the face of historic cuts to federal support for states, some state lawmakers are considering shifting spending priorities away from school voucher programs.

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acs shag@AcsShag78621Apr 7
Tempo Of Charter School Crimes And Arrests Never Decreases thedissidentvoice.org/2026/0… @JanResseger @EdLawCenter @BisforBerkshire @BadassTeachersA @educationweek @MarkALieberman @SarahDSparks @valeriestrauss @nckhui @SchlFinance101 @jeffbcdm @coopmike48

Tempo of Charter School Crimes and Arrests Never Decreases - Dissident Voice

Even though they make up only 8% of schools in the country, crimes, scandals, and arrests take place at a robust tempo in the nation’s privately-operated charter schools. These non-stop wrongdoings...

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Asia Times@asiatimesonlineMar 29
Chinese capital circling Trump's school voucher gold rush asiatimes.com/2026/03/chines…
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ICYMI, I have a breaking story about state lawmakers opting into Trump’s new school voucher scheme are creating a potential windfall for private investors … in China? asiatimes.com/2026/03/chines…

Chinese private equity circling Trump's school voucher gold rush - Asia Times

In September 2023, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stunned school choice advocates when he kicked out four private schools from the state’s

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My newest looks at conservatives’ fears over the influence of Chinese investors in American education and how Trump’s new school voucher scheme could give these investors a windfall. counterpunch.org/2026/03/27/…

How Will Trump’s Supporters React to Seeing School Vouchers Program Increase Chinese Influence?

In September 2023, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stunned school choice advocates when he kicked out four private schools from the state’s

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"Community schools have been among the most effective strategies to address the effects of family and neighborhood poverty"
Jan Resseger@JanRessegerJan 6
Trump's Education Department Axes Grants for Full-Service Community Schools janresseger.wordpress.com/20… via @janresseger

Trump’s Education Department Axes Grants for Full-Service Community Schools

The late, great David Berliner was the Regents’ professor emeritus in the psychology of education at Arizona State University, a former president of the American Educational Research Association, a…

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A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools - @jeffbcdm - Progressive progressive.org/public-schoo…

A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools

But media pundits and reporters ignore it, and Republicans are trying to kill it.

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For decades, education policy has emphasized top-down, heavy-handed governance and privatization schemes such as charter schools. That's changing. But reporters and pundits are ignoring that and Republicans are trying to kill the movement. progressive.org/public-schoo…

A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools

But media pundits and reporters ignore it, and Republicans are trying to kill it.

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