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Mike Goldstein's avatar

Good stuff Chad. Genuine question: did union officials really expect the $ would get kids back on track - in terms of achievement? I think they felt like getting the $ was the win, and that for Biden *giving* the $ to political ally was a win. Not sure if any reporter ever found an inside Cardona source about how he really felt.

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Chad Aldeman's avatar

I guess that's right, Mike, the money was the win. My critique is the Biden Administration had 4 years to respond to the crisis on their hands, and they never really rose to the moment, and even at times tried to pretend it wasn't happening.

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Christine Wolfe's avatar

We were totally shut out of the website on release day so it wasn’t just you! Same thing happened last year.

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Lauren S. Brown's avatar

Thank you so much for this thoughtful post and the webinar this morning. Both so inspired me that I wrote a post about the webinar on Substack. Two points above are especially resonating with me: 1. It's not just $, but how we spend it that matters. And 2, that this story was so buried in our national news outlets. I guess the news that our reading and math scores are so low doesn't seem so newsworthy because it's not really new. That is depressing.

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