Children, Classrooms, and Coronavirus

The Dispatch Podcast

The Dispatch

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🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden has recently drawn ire from GOP lawmakers for lagging behind his stated goal of getting K-12 children back into the classroom for in-person instruction. Liesl Hickey, a partner at Ascent Media and co-founder of N2 America, joins the show to chat with Sarah and Steve about teachers unions, remote learning’s effect on student well-being, and whether the NRSC will play a bigger role in GOP primaries during the next election cycle. Show Notes: -“Remote learning failed my third-grader miserably. I pulled her out of public school.” by Liesl Hickey in USA Today. -“Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen” by Erica L. Green in The New York Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Dispatch Podcast.
0:02.6	I'm your host, Sarah Isger, joined by Steve Hayes.
0:06.0	And today we have guest, Lisa Hickey.
0:09.8	Lisa and I go way, way back to my Republican National
0:13.8	Committee days.
0:14.5	She was the executive director of the National
0:17.5	Republican Congressional Committee.
0:19.2	This is the arm of the Republican Party that focuses
0:22.0	on those congressional seats around the country.
0:24.8	They did quite well in 2020 picking up seats,
0:28.1	despite everyone thinking that they wouldn't.
0:31.2	But now, Lisa is the founder of an organization called
0:35.6	Into America that is focusing specifically
0:38.6	on what is happening in the public schools right now
0:41.5	and the school closures that continue across the country.
0:44.8	She has an op-ed in USA Today entitled,
0:48.6	Remote Learning Failed My Third Grader Misjurebly.
0:51.2	I pulled her out of public school by ignoring the science
0:54.0	and resisting going back to the classroom,
0:55.9	teachers unions have lost the goodwill of parents like me.
0:59.6	So we'll be talking today a lot about school closures
1:02.3	across the country and the political consequences of that
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