NEA President Lily Eskelsen García on Teaching During a Pandemic and a DeVos

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🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The host (and former member of the Senate Education Committee) and the president of the National Education Association talks about an important subject: how awful Betsy DeVos is. But also, education.

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0:08.7	Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondery's Podcast American Scandal.
0:12.7	Our newest series looks at the trial of the Chicago Seven, a case involving protests of
0:17.3	the Vietnam War and the legal fight that became a referendum on the soul and future of
0:22.0	America.
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0:30.0	Welcome to the podcast, welcome to the show.
0:38.4	We do have a very good one for a change.
0:43.1	With Lilly Eskelson Garcia, the president of the National Education Association, which
0:48.3	represents millions of members of teachers, counselors, studio staff, administrators, bus drivers.
0:57.3	I talked to Lilly earlier this week about education, about the Secretary of Education, Betsy
1:04.3	DeVos, Betsy DeVos, about teaching during this time of the pandemic about the terrible
1:12.8	disparities in this country that we're seeing during this time.
1:18.7	What that means for our children and for the education they receive, I think you really
1:24.8	like Lilly almost as much as you like me.
1:30.6	But I am recording this on Friday, May 29th, a few days after the murder of George Floyd
1:37.8	in my city of Minneapolis.
1:40.9	And this has been a very painful time for Minneapolis, for George's family, for everyone
1:47.3	in the Twin Cities.
1:49.3	When I first heard about this, when I first told about it, I cried.
1:56.4	Before I saw the footage, but this is so senseless.
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