This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silver's. You're listening to Pantsu Politics, where we take a different back to school season.

Hallelujah. Hallelu, it's been too long of a summer.

I'm sorry, I don't usually disrupt the opening,

but can we just get a Hallelujah, Beth?

Can we get a Hallelujah?

My kids are so happy to be back and I am so happy for them to be back.

I'm happy for everyone. I'm happy for everyone. And honestly, every teacher that I've talked to

has been like, yeah, I was ready to come back.

It's time. So I hope that everyone.

Hope that's how everyone feels. I hope that's the vibe.

Gosh. Well, today we're going to embrace that vibe and talk all about school.

We are going to begin as an interesting dynamic in the

presidential race has emerged of talking about free school lunches and tampons in

bathrooms. Well we got a former teacher on the ticket of course we're going to

talk about school. Then we're going to talk about school.

Then we're delighted to have John Valant here.

John is a senior fellow in governance studies from the Brookings Institution.

He is going to discuss school choice and what will be the first of several conversations about school choice that we plan to have this fall.

And outside of politics, we're going to discuss pop girl summer and the major songs of summer.

Think about me every night.

Okay, so we are in Chicago as you're listening to this.

We're at the DNC.

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