One Thing: Understanding “The Assignment” with Audie Cornish

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🗓️ 27 November 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Over the past few years, once-sleepy local school board meetings have become passionate and occasionally rowdy venues for debate over issues like the pandemic, race, gender and more. We’ve also seen school board elections become more partisan than ever. We hear from two parents about why they decided to run for office and what changes they hope to make while in power. Listen to “The Assignment” here. Guest: Audie Cornish, CNN Anchor & Correspondent To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. Maybe you got a few days off work as well. If you're a parent, you may be more than ready at this point for your kids to go back to school after their holiday break. And that's what I want to talk about today.
0:14.0	Schools and who decides how they're run.
0:16.0	You're stepping over your line.
0:22.0	You don't need to breathe for me.
0:24.3	Diversity is a code word for anti-white.
0:28.4	We are pulling our son today from this school district.
0:31.5	Who will be taking responsibility?
0:33.6	Let's take a recess. The board will take a recess.
0:36.6	Over the past few years, local school board meetings have become ground zero for
0:40.9	intense debates over so-called culture war issues.
0:44.2	The pandemic, gender, race, just to name a few.
0:47.0	All right, thank you, your time is up.
0:48.8	We have no one.
0:50.2	Your time is up.
0:51.4	My time is never up because I am impairment.
0:55.0	Meth frustration has motivated some parents to get off the sidelines and run for school board positions themselves
1:01.5	in races that have become more overtly partisan than ever.
1:05.8	My guest this week is CNN correspondent Audie Cornish.
1:08.9	She's the host of the new podcast The Assignment.
1:11.4	She spoke to two such parents about what motivated them to run for
1:14.7	office and what they hope to do now that they're in power. From CNN this is one thing.
1:20.3	I'm David Ryan. Hey, Aughty, so your new podcast is called The Assignment.
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