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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

School Choice is a No-Brainer.

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

School choice.  School choice.  School choice.  Michele believes in it, preaches about it, and books guests who know more about it than most.  In this episode, Corey DeAngelis of the American Federation for Children explains why public schools should be called government schools… and why they aren’t working.

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0:00.0

Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Defoy, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals.

0:05.3

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0:08.2

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0:13.8

Coming up, a topic I don't think I can talk too much about.

0:18.0

And that's school choice.

0:19.7

Cori D'Angis joins us next.

0:23.6

For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines. She started very

0:28.9

young. She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball

0:34.3

national championships. And now, during these insane times in our world, Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose of sanity.

0:44.6

This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the sanest people on planet Earth.

0:51.3

Michelle Tofoya.

0:56.6

Well, welcome to sideline sanity.

0:58.7

And if you haven't noticed, I'm a big school choice proponent.

1:02.8

I've had on a few guests already in this short period of time that we've had the podcast

1:07.9

going, sideline sanity.

1:09.3

And I just think it's the same thing to do.

1:12.6

And in fact, I think it's a little bit insane to keep doing what we're doing and throwing money at public schools that don't work and pretend like the money into the system is supposed to funnel down to the kids and make it work.

1:24.4

That hasn't been doing too well.

1:30.1

So I'm really happy to have Corey DeAngelis on.

1:38.0

He is a senior fellow at School Choice Now, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. His resume goes on.

1:46.2

And Corey, thanks for being here. I've got to ask you, what drew you into this sort of activism that you're doing?

1:52.1

Yeah, so I actually grew up in San Antonio, Texas, where I attended government-run schools all through K-12. But in high school, I had the opportunity to go to something called a magnet school, which is still run by the district.

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