A Deep Dive on School Choice and Education Freedom, with Parents, Experts, and Advocates | Ep. 394

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Today we take a deep dive on the important education issue of school choice. Megyn Kelly is joined by Ray Domanico of the Manhattan Institute, Corey DeAngelis of the American Federation for Children, Ian Rowe of AEI and author of "Agency," NYC public school parents Mourad Belkas and Chi Lau who are stuck in a failing system, and Arizona parents Kendra and John Scheer who were able to get out of the public system, to talk about declining public school enrollment, the value of having choice, charter schools, the situation in New York City, teachers unions, the decline in school performance because of the COVID pandemic, attacks on merit in America, how vouchers can make an impact, arguments against school choice, the bizarre and unfair NYC public school lottery system, the frustrating choices public school parents are forced to make, the racism of the system toward Asians and immigrants who have focused on integrating into the system, the way the pandemic changed public schools, solutions that empower parents, the "money following the child," the important Arizona bill, charter schools vs. public schools, education freedom and parental rights, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:14.7	Today we're bringing you an episode I've been wanting to do for a long time on this
0:18.7	show because it impacts every single one of us in one way or another.
0:23.5	Today we're going to discuss education in America and specifically school choice.
0:28.5	Why do you basically have to go to the public school in which you pay taxes?
0:34.3	Why aren't there more options for most parents?
0:37.4	Who's stopping it and why and how can we get around them?
0:41.7	Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are spent on our public education system every
0:45.5	year and yet America's students are falling way behind its pathetic where our country is
0:50.8	right now in the international rankings.
0:53.1	Pathetic.
0:54.1	Our issues were certainly made worse by COVID but it's not actually a new problem.
0:58.4	You were falling behind even before COVID.
1:00.4	A 2018 survey found the United States ranked 22nd, 22nd in the world when it comes to
1:08.9	reading math and science scores.
1:11.2	Guess where the Chinese are?
1:12.8	Number one, we're not even close.
1:15.1	It's ridiculous.
1:17.1	Some argue the solution is more options for parents but critics of school choice say,
1:22.8	well, it sounds like a good idea.
1:24.2	It's got a nice shiny name.
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