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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jackman Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

The ferocious political conflicts over public schools have taken so many turns since I was

an education reporter a decade ago.

Back when I was reporting for the Philadelphia City Paper, and before that, the Philadelphia

Public School notebook, bipartisan corporate ed reformers pushing charter schools and

high stakes testing were ascendant, while maligned teachers unions played defense.

Since then, that bipartisan corporate ed movement that reached its apotheosis under the Obama

administration has fallen apart.

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