you had the teacher's unions lobbying the CDC to make it more difficult to reopen schools

in person so that they can hold children's education hostage to secure multiple multi-billion

dollar ransom payments from the taxpayer.

At the Freedom Fest conference in Las Vegas, I sat down with Cory D'Angeles, the National

Director of Research at the American Federation for Children and Executive Director of the Educational

Freedom Institute.

The school system is a massive monopoly that has no incentive to spend that money wisely.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janja Kellek.

Cory D'Angeles, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

Well, and I should say finally, you know, I've been watching your work for a while now.

Yeah, and so we've had a heck of a past couple of years with school choice victories in

the polls, but then also in state legislatures we've been passing enormous expansions of

educational freedom, so it's a good time to be a school choice advocate.

Absolutely, no, so I want to talk about all those things before we go there, right?

In the last couple of years, the role of teachers unions in the education system has been

put front and center.

I mean, in a way, I don't even think most people realized how big a role teachers unions

play.

So I want to get you to start there because this is something that's on everybody's mind.

Yeah, the way that I would put is that COVID didn't break the government school system,

in a lot of ways it was all already broken.

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