Senior Fellow, Education. Stand Together Trust. Views my own.
Joined January 2010
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Lisa Snell retweeted
Jun 11
The most surreal thing of our trip so far. Currently driving towards Louisiana and the radio station we were listening to started talking about our trip and played Ella Langley especially for usđđđ
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Lisa Snell retweeted
Jun 11
West Virginia spends $4.1 billion a year on education and while outcomes remain unacceptably low.
Nine state reviews, nine districts, one pattern: financial mismanagement, falsified records, unsafe facilities.
When this much money buys this little, the problem isn't the budget. It's the system.
Our research, in two minutes. âŹïž
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Lisa Snell retweeted
Jun 7
It's a real mistake for California to have its ballots delivered to the counters by the high-speed train.
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Young Washington marches into theaters this 4th of July weekend, just in time for America's 250th. Tickets are on sale NOW!
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 21
@TheEconomist covers the #homeschool topic wellâ from an international lensâwith information and evidence from our work over at the @JHUhomeschool @JHUeducation @cardusca @AlbertxCheng @hmatthewlee
economist.com/international/âŠ
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 20
The Hope Scholarship actually increases per pupil spending for government-run schools. They keep two-thirds of the funds for a child theyâre no longer tasked with educating.
Government schools donât have a funding problemâthey have a funding mismanagement problem. No more bail outs!
May 20
Think the Hope Scholarship is draining public schools? Think again.
Hereâs the truth: West Virginiaâs funding formula isnât based on individual studentsâitâs built around staffing, buildings, and transportation. When a student chooses Hope, local property taxes and federal dollars donât go anywhere. Building allowances stay put. Only the state share tied to that one child moves, just as it was designed to.
The real budget challenges? They come from decades of declining enrollment, an outdated funding formula, and temporary federal COVID dollars that expanded staffing beyond whatâs sustainable.
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 13
Also, there's a lot of grey area that we're not prepared to deal with. Do these people think cps should be called on a 6-year-old who walks to the nearby bodega by himself? What about the 8-year-old using the subway or bus on his own? What about the mom who hires a 12-year-old to babysit? What about the 4-year-old who is in a taxi cab without a carseat for a short ride? What aboutââmy own hypothetical that the internet flipped out at me forââbringing a young baby to a wedding vs. spending the newborn days in total isolation? What if cps is called by someone who has no kids and doesn't know what might be developmentally appropriate, or someone who has a grudge against the person they're trying to report?
Weaponization of cps (and threatening cps involvement in a cavalier, bullying way) is one of the absolute worst trends of the last few decades. There's a lot of grey area that's just *hard* to sift through. CPS should be used for genuinely abusive and neglectful situations. We've entirely lost the plot.
May 13
the number of people invoking cps every time they hear about a parenting choice that they wouldnât make is really disturbing.
do you understand what claim youâre making when you say someone should have cps called on them? youâre saying that you believe their child would be better off ripped from the only home theyâve ever known and put in the care of strangers. moreover, youâre saying you believe the median foster parent is a better parent than their current parents.
youâre also saying you think we should dedicate state resources to carrying out this process. social workers already have caseloads too big to manage dealing with kids in homes with serious drug addiction, abuse, neglect and often fail to successfully intervene when itâs desperately needed.
you want these same social workers to spend time taking kids away from parents who leave them in a locked and air conditioned car for 2 minutes while they run into the store, or who watch them on the baby monitor while they catch up with the neighbors? really? if you were in charge of society this is what youâd do?
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 11
Within 30 days of opening enrollment to MLGâs âfree childcareâ the program was already overspending. Estimates in the range of $50 million has been overspent since November.
The state literally did zero groundwork before launching MLGâs legacy which is the real legacyâŠâŠ.intentionally mismanaged funds and programs are her calling cards.
New Mexico started overspending on its universal childcare program almost immediately after it went into effect in November, legislative analysts say. The overspending has led to renewed concerns over the sustainability of the program. sfnm.co/4tXe3rU
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 11
Despite millions spent, finished pre-K site sits EMPTY in BrooklynâŠ
ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/eduâŠ
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Lisa Snell retweeted
Mar 24
Landlords and private equity firms mysteriously decide to be less greedy in the cities where developers can build more homes easily
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 11
Things get cheaper when the spigot of unlimited government money gets turned off, a principle that applies to more than just higher education.
It's so painfully obvious that grad schools did not need to charge so much tuition. They did it because they could. And with new loan limits, they no longer can. merage.uci.edu/landing-pagesâŠ
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 11
The odds of having dementia at age 85 were close to 1 in 3 in the 80s; now they are 1 in 10.
I donât think we have a great explanation: better cardiovascular health, diet, and education are often mentioned. Good news nonetheless.
Carnall Farrar. (2025, March 27). Dementia trends.
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 11
In December, there was a panic-inducing report about Instacart.
Surveillance pricing! Okay, minor detail: they found no evidence of that.
Flash forward 5 months, and we have our first law out of Maryland.
Lo and behold, the law is also confused about dynamic pricing, predatory pricing, price discrimination, really pricing overall.
My latest in @PostOpinions about what happens when panic gets ahead of clear thinking
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 10
So now that everyone has seen the disappointment of attempts to squeeze out a bit more federal power and the risk that it might be used against you...
can we all agree we should give federalism a shot and limit the federal government to just its specifically enumerated powers?
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 10
A crazy statistic:
Robert Moses built 650 playgrounds in NYC in 26 years
Thats a new playground every other week ⊠for 2 and a half decades. And these playgrounds are still some of the best in the US
Itâs an unfathomable level of competence for a public servant today. Even if it was the only thing someone did.
May 10
Robert Moses started with building playgrounds.
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Lisa Snell retweeted
𧔠Since 2000, hospital employees per bed jumped from 4.56 to 6.32 â a 39% increase.
Meanwhile hospital beds per capita fell 54% since 1975, and admissions per 1,000 people dropped 17.5% from 2000 to 2024.
Fewer beds. Fewer admissions. More staff per bed.
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Lisa Snell retweeted
May 1
LAUSD agreed to the costly demands of United Teachers Los Angeles to avoid a strike, but now the school districtâs only hope is a bailout from state taxpayers, writes @ASmithAZ.
buff.ly/hlXI6fe
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Lisa Snell retweeted
Apr 24
âSchool founders are small-business owners, and their backgrounds and pedagogies are as diverse as the students they serve.â ~@jemcenaney in her debut @WSJopinion
wsj.com/opinion/florida-tackâŠ
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Lisa Snell retweeted
Hospital services prices are up 281% since 2000 â more than any other major sector of the US economy.
Our new paper, The Hospital Cost Crisis, explains why:
t2m.io/ff6gO03
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Lisa Snell retweeted
Apr 23
It's important to keep in mind that these figures are "current" expenditures, which means they don't include spending on capital, construction, etc.
That's why it's better to look at revenue.
Public school funding in 2024 was $21,065 per student. These are the dollars public schools received from federal, state, and local sources.
Isolating operating expenditures is useful and has its place.
But there's generally no reason to ignore such a large chunk of taxpayer funding.
Kâ12 spending just topped $1 TRILLION.
Per-pupil: ~$18K and rising.
Outcomes? Thatâs a different story.
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