Things to read this week

 As always, a lot of this has come through on the microblogger sites, but for those who prefer somewhere else: 

• Cheers today to Holyoke Superintendent-Receiver Soto, who named the elephant in the Massachusetts education living room by stating that city schools can't solve segregation on their own: 
  Possible internal solutions are out of reach, because in Holyoke, 81% of students come from Latino cultural backgrounds, Soto said. According to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, another 4% of students in Holyoke identify as African American.
  
  
• California has now made it state law that schools can't out trans kids. This is deliberate, as CA has had school boards that have passed policies to require it, which we know endangers kids.
  
  
• Families in some states aren't going to get summer EBT until the new school year, Chalkbeat reports, and for a scary reason.
  ...delays and start-up challenges have dogged the program. Some states have identified hundreds of thousands more children who are eligible for Summer EBT than they initially expected. That’s underscored the widespread need for food assistance and will bolster the program’s impact. But it’s also complicated getting the program off the ground. 
  
  
• As if the patchwork of injunctions on the new Title IX rule isn't confusing enough, over 1100 schools and universities, some in states where the rule is expected to go into effect on August 1, are now included in an injunction out of the U.S. District Court of Kansas.
  This is going to be a mess.
  
  
• And if you're in Worcester in particular, but interested in Massachusetts education in general, you'll want to read Neal McNamara's Patch article this week, as well as stay up on Tom Marino's series on the Worcester School Committee (part one and part two, so far).