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Just listened to this ... and it’s difficult to overstate how bad this could get if states begin making rash decisions about their budgets ... https://twitter.com/bisforberkshire/status/1264557737972830210
The other budgetary concern is that the fall will almost certainly bring an increase in tech spending. This post about ways to re-open schools is less pessimistic, but in imagining options increased tech use feels inevitable. https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/reopening-school/
So with vendors having most of summer to pitch their tools to districts, schools needing to increase spending on public health measures, and states proposing budget cuts ... this is a recipe for justifying significant personnel cuts & that usually means student-facing employees.
All of this is actually significant to the presidential race because sustainably allocating federal funds to schools is going to be essential to navigate this mess ... and we already know how disastrous a negligent choice for Sec of Ed could be: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/betsy-devos-coronavirus-religious-schools.html
In short, this could be a major crisis that could effect millions of lives. So ... interestingly ... the 2020 candidate with the clearest vision about reforming fed funding for K-12 was Warren...so it’s one more reason she’s be good for VP https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2019/10/elizabeth_warren_education_plan_2020.html
In fairness, multiple candidates had an eye on federal funding for K-12 schools — Klobuchar actually surprised me in terms of her fluency with edspeak — but Warren’s thinking was probably best tailored for this moment. But I’m not a school finance expert ... so lemme stop 
The most troubling part of hearing that states are cutting/considering cutting budgets for education: the last time that happened due to an economic crisis, many never returned to pre-crisis levels (screenshot looks like automated transcript of the video): https://therealnews.com/stories/can-public-education-survive-covid-19
Also worth noting that off the top of my head in the Bay Area, Oakland Unified, West Contra Costa Unified, and San Francisco Unified were all facing deficits *prior* to the pandemic that led to discussions about cuts ... so ... yeah.
I never intended to do daily updates of our impending national educational disaster ... but new stories seem to be rolling in everyday ... so I’m gonna continue this thread because we’re staring a dire situation ...
