Three longer reads (that are worth it)

 I've not been doing a great job of pushing shares over here (they're mostly living on Twitter or Facebook, sorry), but here are three that have recently crossed my desk that are worth a read: 

• This look at what it means that we're about to have an Office of Civil Rights in the federal Education department that takes disciplinary disparities seriously is well worth the time. Also, I hadn't realized that Secretary Cardona thinks police in schools is a good thing. That's concerning.
  
  
• The Nation and the Hechinger Report worked together on this piece on PTA disparities--which are huge!--and how some districts are working on addressing that.
  
  
• There are pages and pages one could post on this sudden influx of screaming about critical race theory (which isn't CRT) in K-12 education. This piece from NBC News is a good start, particularly as it notes this is a national, not grassroots, mess. Professor Mo Cunningham has already been tackling the not at all grassroots funding of Parents Defending Education. Peter Greene (who's also been right on top of this) took a look at where that weird body cam proposal that was floating around over the weekend came from. His take on this being part of a larger drive to make education about consumer choice is right on (to which I would add that public education, from the perspective of many constitutions, is not for the individual benefit of the child, even, let alone the parent). And this New Yorker piece around fights over history is worth reading.