Special Weekend Interviews: Augustus Mays and John Poveromo
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
John interviews Augustus Mays who serves as Ed Trust's vice president for Partnerships and Engagement. Ed Trust has released a toolkit and ballot guidance for Black and Brown parents navigating school choice policies aimed at eradicating public schools. Education is on the ballot and parents of color and low income communities stand to lose access to public education with or without Project 2025 in place. Then winding up the Halloween show, John jokes with comedian John Poveromo on current news, pop culture, and the looming presidential election.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fuglesang podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome. It's progress after dark. Thank you, Dino Badaala, for the excellent lead-in that I can never hope to measure up to. |
| 0:17.6 | Fuglesang, aided and abetted by the most dangerous production squad in |
| 0:21.9 | radio. Chris Howsel, run in this beast out of South Carolina, the great Thea Harper, producing |
| 0:27.1 | our show out of Brooklyn for the next three hours. We're going to be coming at you with facts, |
| 0:31.2 | empathy, music, and something resembling, but not quite achieving wit. We are only a few days away from Election Day, and we'll be deciding throughout the states on many pivotal initiatives. |
| 0:44.4 | Education is on the ballot. |
| 0:46.0 | And, of course, expanding school voucher programs, which we need to talk about more, school voucher programs, which provide public funds for private schools. Well, 14 states have active voucher programs which provide public funds for private schools. Well, |
| 0:56.5 | 14 states have active voucher programs right now, but many more states are expected to follow |
| 1:00.8 | suit. It's a big business. And the grandchildren of the people who really did not like desegregation |
| 1:06.9 | of public schools think they figured out a way to get out of that dilemma. And so right now, |
| 1:12.6 | parents of color in low-income communities are standing to lose access to quality public education |
| 1:17.0 | with or without Project 2025 in place. It's a scary time. It's a scary battle, and we need |
| 1:23.2 | more Democrats to speak out about it. Ed Trust is a national education advocacy and civil rights |
| 1:28.1 | organization. They're deeply opposed to vouchers and the harm they disproportionately place on |
| 1:32.6 | black and Latino students. They have just released a toolkit and ballot guidance for black and |
| 1:37.9 | brown parents navigating school choice policies aimed at eradicating public schools. |
| 1:42.3 | Augustus Mays serves as Ed Trust's vice president for partnerships and engagement. |
| 1:46.3 | He leads the organization's efforts to engage policymakers and diverse coalitions of advocates |
| 1:50.4 | to enact equity, advancing policy change at the national and state levels, which is even |
| 1:56.7 | harder than it sounds. |
| 1:58.1 | It's a great pleasure to welcome Augustus Mays to Sirius XM. |
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