Let's Push Together (with Randi Weingarten)

Pod Save the People

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

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🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss Brooklyn's attempt to integrate middle schools, the psychology of inequality, partisan District Attorney problems, and Trump's EPA lighting the planet on fire. Then, DeRay chats with Randi Weingarten, the leader of the American Federation of Teachers, regarding union fights facing the nation. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/the-psychology-of-inequality https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/15/what-happened-when-brooklyn-tried-integrate-its-middle-schools/?arc404=true https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3243162 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trumps-unpopular-epa-agenda-could-cost-him-in-2020.html https://www.getquip.com/affiliate?affiliate=crooked&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=pod_save_the_people https://burrow.com/PEOPLE https://www.policygenius.com/ https://secure.actblue.com/donate/vsafairfight?refcode=VSA We Live Here, wherever you get your podcasts

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Duray and we're going to buy some of the people in this episode.
0:04.7	We are joined by Randy Weingai in the President of the AFT, one of the biggest teacher
0:08.2	juniors in the country.
0:09.7	You're seeing the will on the part of teacher unions with allies basically saying, let's
0:18.1	just try and make schools, centers of community and wrap services around.
0:24.4	And I suspect that the more we can do this, the more you're going to see over the course
0:31.9	of the next few years, more nurses coming out of nursing schools who will then be school
0:37.8	nurses.
0:38.9	Like when you started, like you did in Baltimore, it's always really hard to be first
0:45.0	addict.
0:46.2	But once people then start seeing that there is not only a need, there is a demand, then
0:52.8	what's going to happen is that we're going to start being able to get school nurses
0:57.0	again, which happened a huge shortage.
1:00.2	And then we have the news with me, Brittany Clinton, Sam, as usual.
1:04.1	This week's message is simple, so I've been going to the gym.
1:06.5	I'm trying to get better, but I'm going to the gym.
1:09.2	And I'm used to the gym being a place that is just hard.
1:12.2	We're like, the workouts are hard, not particularly fine.
1:15.7	All the people who are like, I love the gym, never understood those people.
1:19.0	And then I started doing two things differently.
1:21.0	One is I started to work out with a friend.
1:23.3	So one of my good friends, we go together and that's dope.
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