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Corey DeAngelis: School Choice and the 'Parent Revolution'

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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There’s a war being waged for America’s elementary, middle, and high school students. But the leftist agenda-driven campaign that began behind the closed doors of teachers unions and government-run schools is now out in the open and has led to a “parent revolution,” says Corey DeAngelis.  The "teachers unions overplayed their hand and awakened a sleeping giant, which happens to be parents who want more of a say in their kids' education," says DeAngelis, author of “The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools.”   DeAngelis—sometimes referred to as the "school choice evangelist"—dedicated his new book to "Randi Weingarten [president of the American Federation of Teachers] and the teachers unions for inadvertently doing more to advance school choice and homeschooling than anyone could have ever imagined." School choice programs, which give parents the opportunity to use their tax dollars to send their children to a private school or even to homeschool them, are restoring parents' power over their children’s education. Already, states across America are embracing school choice.  "We now have 11 states with universal school choice," DeAngelis says, adding the programs are a fulfillment of the late Nobel Prize-winning economist "Milton Friedman's vision for all families" to have choice over their children's education. DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children and a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and Jason Bedrick, a research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss why school choice programs are a rising tide that will lift all of America’s education system. (Heritage founded the Daily Signal in 2014.) Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, May 17th. I'm Virginia Allen.

0:10.6

There is currently a Parent revolution happening in government schools across

0:16.2

America. As more and more parents are waking up to what is happening within the school

0:21.2

systems, they are opting in to school choice programs,

0:24.8

pulling their kids out and choosing to use their tax dollars to put them in

0:29.2

private education or even to homeschool them.

0:32.2

Corey DeAngelis has been called a school choice evangelist

0:36.0

and he is author of the brand new book,

0:39.0

The Parent Revolution, rescuing your kids

0:42.0

from the radicals ruining our schools.

0:45.0

He's joining me on the show today to discuss the new book and this trend of more and

0:50.0

more parents opting out of government education.

0:53.2

Also joining us for that conversation is Jason Bedrick.

0:56.8

He serves as a research fellow

0:58.9

in the Center for Education Policy

1:00.4

here at the Heritage Foundation.

1:02.3

Stay tuned for our conversation on education

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and these incredible shifts that are happening

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as more and more Americans wake up

1:10.0

to the benefit of school choice.

1:13.2

The Heritage Foundation is the most effective conservative policy organization in the country.

1:19.0

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