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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. The ferocious political conflicts of

public schools have taken so many turns since I was an education reporter a decade ago.

Back when I was reporting for the Philadelphia City Paper, and before that, the Philadelphia

Public School notebook, bipartisan corporate ed reformers pushing charter schools and high

stakes testing were ascendant while maligned teachers unions played defense. Since then,

that bipartisan corporate ed movement that reached its apotheosis under the Obama administration

has fallen apart. On the left, a renewed teacher's social unionism has emerged in places like

Chicago and Los Angeles, seriously challenging the ed reform stranglehold on the Democratic party.

The right, meanwhile, has reengaged a push to all-out privatize public education through vouchers,

all while fomenting a renewed culture war, accusing public school teachers of teaching white

kids to hate themselves through CRT or grooming them to be queer or trance or whatever.

Today's episode is my big picture interview on public ed with Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire.

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