Recommended reading

• You may have recognized how damaging the right-wing assault on school districts has been, but now there's a first attempt to calculate how expensive it has been. The answer: $3.2 billion. The report, posted through UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access, is here. You can also find coverage in The Guardian, K-12 Dive, Chalkbeat, EdWeek
  
  
• Coming in this week's New York Times Magazine is this long read on cheer: how it became a dominant sport, how dangerous it is for girls, and how it's probably violating anti-trust laws. That's a gift link, so read and share. 
  
  
• In both Oklahoma and Louisiana, educators and parents are suing their respective states to stop mandates for Bibles (Oklahoma) and the Ten Commandments (LA) in the classroom. 
  
  
• I really appreciated this opinion piece from New Bedford superintendent Andrew O'Leary on vocational school funding.
  
  
• I appreciated the paragraphs in this piece regarding San Francisco on position control.