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LISTEN: Education policy expert Jennifer Berkshire on the right wing attack on public education.
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LISTEN: Education policy expert Jennifer Berkshire on the right wing attack on public education.

You will want to hear this conversation and then get to work fighting back.

Earlier in March, I talked with Beth Lewis, a teacher and now the director of Save Our Schools Arizona, and was, frankly stunned by what she told me. (The link to that conversation is below.) The attack on public education is so thorough and thoroughly subversive that I knew I needed to better understand its origins and its connections to other ideas animating the autocratic right.  That brought me to Jennifer Berkshire. 

Jennifer Berkshire writes about education and politics. She created and co-hosts a podcast “Have You Heard” about education policy. And she teaches at both Boston College UMass Amherst. She’s the author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School. You can find her on twitter at @BisforBerkshire.

Education policy expert & author Jennifer Berkshire

Here’s the link to my recent conversation with Beth Lewis of Save Our Schools Arizona:

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Listen now (28 min) | -Read more about the voucer disaster in Arizona in this opinion piece by Beth Lewis in the Arizona Capitol Times: Nation watches as Arizona’s universal ESA voucher fiasco fails https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2023/02/06/nation-watches-as-arizonas-universal-esa-voucher-fiasco-fails…
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