Bruce D. Baker
Professor, Education Finance & Policy
Personal Website: https://schoolfinance101.com
School Finance Indicators Database: schoolfinancedata.org
Books: hep.gse.harvard.edu/author/bruce-d-baker/
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerJD Vance gets loudly booed at the Olympics: "There is the Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha. Oop—those are a lot of boos for him."
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerJD Vance was just ruthlessly booed at the Olympics during the Opening Ceremony when he was shown on the screen. But you would never know by watching the broadcast on NBC.
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerJD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.
- And here's an empirical/historical analysis of just how far we've NOT come and what steps might help move us forward: hep.gse.harvard.edu/979889557054...
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- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerSorry to be that guy, but holy cow we certainly HAVE seen intense surveillance and attacks on university professors before. Pick a decade: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s....you get it.
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerTrump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more agents than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Not one more penny for ICE.
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerImagine filing a civil rights complaint for your kid and learning the system’s main “resolution” is dismissal. OCR’s dismissal rate hit 90% in 2025 (vs year-to-year variation btw 49% in 10–11 to 81% in 19–20).
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerThis wasn't just foreseeable, it was *intentional* on SFFA's part.
"high-achieving underrepresented minority college-goers were up to 10 percentage points less likely to enroll in highly selective colleges... “cascading” down the college selectivity distribution into less selective colleges with lower graduation rates and earnings." edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1392
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerThis was a remarkably crazy response by Mike Johnson's standards. He's going full "stop the steal" and clearly would line up behind any effort Trump makes to rig the midterms and 2028 elections
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- If they're really looking for large scale fraud, they should look into school voucher programs/ESAs in Arizona and Florida. Also, charter school real estate transactions in FL.
- Reposted by Bruce D. Baker"Since prison for Epstein’s fellow abusers gets unlikelier over time, America’s deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." - marvellous, marvellous column by @edwardluce.bsky.social:
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerTrump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!
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- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerRepublicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering. Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerQuote from Trump just minutes ago: "The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places.... The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting." In modern history, there's never been a bigger threat to our Constitution and our way of life than and his enablers.
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- Reposted by Bruce D. Baker"When a student who is usually in class suddenly stops showing up, or when a senior once excited to go to college says they don’t want to go anymore, we know why." www.edweek.org/leadership/o...
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerHorrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
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- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerSanity prevaiis. Thank God. Justice Department's Misconduct Complaint Against Judge Boasberg Gets Tossed www.huffpost.com/entry/justic...
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerWhether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.
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- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerThe unitary executive exception to Artice I, Section 8.
- How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding? www.ft.com/content/b474... via @ft
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerICE will respond by requiring all non-citizens to wear special badges, perhaps in a unique shape and color so everyone can recognize who's who in the streets.
- In Minneapolis, they are starting to *wear their passports at all times* www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
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- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerIt’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerAt the most fundamental level, the Trump admin is still treating peaceful protesters as the aggressors and the heavily armed government militias as the victims, even though Homan, Miller, Noem, Trump have spent months torquing them into a frenzy of hate and telling them they can act with impunity.
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerThe national rate of pediatric firearm deaths increased by 54% from 2004 to 2023, with most U.S. kids now living in states where firearm injury is the leading cause of death. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerThis is well-done www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1dy...
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerWe profiled refugees who: Arrived in the country legally. Applied for green cards. Were arrested by ICE and detained. One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released. This is an unprecedented operation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
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- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerIt's Greg Abbott, so there's a decent chance he's worried that ICE is too busy killing adults to focus their attention on the ones he traditionally tries to harm -- children
- Oh shoot they've lost Greg Abbott! The same extremist who pardoned a mam who killed a BLM protestor. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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- Meanwhile - here's the news feed in the alternative fact-free universe
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerWeird that hiring away a few checked-out Tory alcoholics from British dailies and emphasizing op eds about Why Your Boss Deserves A Tax Cut didn't deliver better results but what can you do? What, at the end of the day, can you do?
- Jeff Bezos is putting the Washington Post into hospice: defector.com/jeff-bezos-i...
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerPublic executions will continue until the citizenry is silent.
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerThis can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this. Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
- Reposted by Bruce D. Bakeri think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerMore profiles in cowardice: Target, Best Buy, General Mills, Cargill and roughly four dozen other large MN companies issued a public letter calling for an “immediate de-escalation of tensions” in the state. Stops short of condemning the killings or who is responsible for them.
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerComer on Fox right now urging Trump to pull ICE out of Minneapolis to *punish* Minnesotans — will prove to the state how good it was to have ICE there! This is really some 5-D chess
- I know this is tangential-but it's my lane and I like to speak primarily in my lane-we must stop diverting taxpayer dollars to send kids to white christian nationalist hate factories, to become science deniers, and learning ethnically cleansed history. This is critical to our long term future!
- Reposted by Bruce D. BakerDon’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.
