(2017/03/28) The corporatization of our schools (Education)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 March 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1090
Today we look at the confirmation of Betsy DeVos to head the Department of education and some of the ideological and historical context that brought us to this point
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Betsy DeVos Confirmation Proves You Can Buy Power - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 02-09-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Oligarchy - The Haymarket Squares
Ch. 4: Act 2: The truth about school vouchers for impoverished or disabled children - Off Kilter (@TalkPoverty) - Air Date 2-17-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Teach Me Something - Hot Tip
Ch. 6: Act 3: Charter Schools - @LastWeekTonight with @iamjohnoliver - Air Date 08-22-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: How to save a life - The Fray
Ch. 8: Act 4: The history of education policies and their purposes - @Making_Contact - Air Date 3-14-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Dancing Through Life - Christopher Fitzgerald, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Michelle Federer & Norbert Leo Butz
Ch. 10: Act 5: Will Reaganomics Put The Final Nail In The Coffin of Public Education? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 11-29-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: The Idiots are taking over - NOFX
Ch. 12: Act 6: #SaveOurSchools- Stop Legislation that Kills Public Education & Hurts Poor Children via @Network4pubed - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 14: Act 7: Diane Ravitch on the damage Betsy DeVos can do to the Department of Education - Who What Why - Air Date 1-20-17
Voicemails
Ch. 15: Improve on the ACA to build toward single payer - Matt from Pueblo, CO
Ch. 16: New York Health campaign - Alan from Connecticut
Ch. 17: The ACA is a step towards single payer - Evan from Texas
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 18: Final comments on the way to negotiate for a better health care system
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism:
TAKE ACTION
Get involved with Network for Public Education and follow them on Facebook and Twitter
Join the conversations about school vouchers online with #SaveOurSchools
Call Members of Congress: Countable.us Education Bills ; Members of the Education and the Workforce Committee
EDUCATE YOURSELF
Read the Summary of HR 610 (Congress.gov)
Do Private-School Vouchers Promote Segregation? (The Atlantic)
BETSY DEVOS WANTS TO USE AMERICA'S SCHOOLS TO BUILD "GOD'S KINGDOM" (Mother Jones)
Jeff Bryan: The Big Lie Behind Trump’s Budget Proposals for Education (DianaRavitch.com)
Tensions rise as vouchers pick up traction across Wisconsin (Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Subtracting Schools from Communities (Urban.org)
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| 0:47.4 | Patten show Off-Killter, formerly top poverty radio, last week tonight, making contact |
| 0:53.2 | with the Tom Hartman program and who won why. |
| 0:59.0 | We have a new education secretary, Donald Trump's selection for education secretary Betsy |
| 1:04.1 | DeVos was confirmed yesterday with a historic tie-breaking vote from the vice president |
| 1:11.1 | of the United States, Mike Pence needed to break a 50-50 tie. |
| 1:16.0 | Let's take a look at the historic moment. |
| 1:18.2 | On this vote, the Yezer 50, the Nazar 50. |
| 1:22.8 | The Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the |
| 1:28.0 | nomination is confirmed. |
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