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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

All Things with Kim Strassel: Back to School with Corey DeAngelis

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As millions of students head back to the classroom for another year, school-choice "evangelist" Corey DeAngelis joins Kim Strassel on All Things with the latest in the reform revolution taking place at the state level, and the challenges still to come. The senior fellow at the American Federation for Children breaks down the successes, the best policy prescriptions in the school-choice field, the campaign to replace rural, anti-choice Republicans with reformers, the union threat and his own call to eliminate the Department of Education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is All Things with Kim Strassal,

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a Potomac Watch Podcast.

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Welcome to All Things with Kim Strassal.

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I am here this week with Corey de Angeles,

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a man who is at the very tip of the spear of the school choice movement.

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He's a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children.

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He has a long list of think tanks behind his name

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and is also an author.

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Welcome, Corey de Angelis. You call yourself a school choice evangelist, but if I am right as I follow you on social

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media, you have a new reason to be interested in education because you are a new father am I right?

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That's right Kim I'm joined the parent revolution on the front lines so it's a

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great feeling I never knew I could love like this. Well, congratulations and yes, the love shows on your pictures on social media.

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It's a real joy to watch.

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So let me start with this.

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When I go out and I talk around the country and people talk to me about how

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frustrated they are by politics, how concern they are for the future, my response is always,

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yes, that's one half of the story the half you see when you look at

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Washington DC but when you look out at the states the place where we free

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