• National Education Association has spent estimated $35 million on politics this year [Jason Hart, Watchdog]
• Not everyone in academia admires the federal law entitling tenured professors to stay on “until they’re carried out of the classroom on a gurney” [Laurie Fendrich, Chronicle of Higher Ed; my earlier]
• Montgomery County, Md.: “The School Religious Holidays Problem is Really a Public Schooling Problem” [Neal McCluskey]
• “Concussion Lawsuits Hit High School Level” [AP; Cook County, Ill.]
• Reminder: much-quoted “one in five college women is raped” statistic is not real [Christina Sommers, Time; the Washington Post’s contribution (not to forget this); and a very important new piece by Emily Yoffe in Slate]
• Ousting bad cops, ousting bad teachers: parallel obstacles [RiShawn Biddle, Dropout Nation]
• George Leef on federal pressures behind Minneapolis school-discipline initiative [Forbes, earlier here and here]
• DoJ “feigning concern about access for disabled children” in suit challenging Wisconsin school choice [George Will]

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