Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams: How to Stand Up to Project 2025 and Save Public Education

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Hysteria team is off this week, but we're excited to bring you an episode of Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams. In this episode, Stacey talks to Kate Nazemi, a local education activist and parent, and Jon Valant, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, about the future of public education during a second Trump Administration. They break down Project 2025’s education policy prescriptions, the threats to the Department of Education, and what changes a President can and cannot make. Then, they discuss how to best get involved at the local level to make change in your community – from attending local school board meetings, to writing to your local representatives. If you liked this episode, subscribe to Assembly Required wherever you get your podcasts: crooked.com/assemblyrequired

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alyssa and Aaron. The hysteria team is taking a little break right now to lie on our
0:04.8	fainting couches and dissociate, but don't worry. We've got some great content to hold you over
0:09.4	from our favorite crooked media pods. Today we're bringing you an episode from Assembly
0:13.9	Required with Stacey Abrams, where Stacey unpacks what public education could look like under
0:18.9	a second Trump administration with activist Kate
0:21.6	Nazimi and John Vallant from Brookings. This show is always one of my personal sanity corner
0:26.7	picks because Stacey doesn't just drop a bunch of scary information and leave. She talks about
0:31.1	tangible steps you can take in your community that actually make a difference. If you love this
0:35.1	episode as much as we do, make sure to subscribe to Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams
0:38.9	wherever you get your podcasts
0:40.5	and catch the show on YouTube too.
0:42.4	Now let's get into it.
0:47.4	Welcome to Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams from Cricket Media.
0:55.4	I'm your host, Stacey Abrams.
0:58.1	On this show, we try to take complicated issues and untangle them for our audience.
1:04.2	We want to make sure that listeners can take action on the things they care about
1:08.1	and that they understand those things.
1:11.5	We are trying our best to break through the analysis paralysis that is taking hold of so many of us.
1:18.7	But we also want to dispel the desperation that keeps us inactive.
1:23.1	So often, the issues seem so big and so complicated.
1:30.5	Doing nothing seems like the smartest thing to do.
1:36.1	Or we think it's too big for us to solve a loan and we wait for someone to call us in.
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