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The governance of public schools

AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK

AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.7527 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Two Women Inspiring Real Life with Stephanie Coxon and Kathy Anderson-Martin – Administrators and superintendents who abdicate their responsibilities and think the boards work for them; board members who ignore their fiduciary responsibilities in holding paid staff accountable for the finances, outcomes, and policies of the school have turned our schools into expensive social experiments with declining...

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0:00.0

I'm Stephanie Coxon and I'm Kathy Anderson Martin and we are two women influencing real live.

0:18.0

So let's twirl.

0:27.6

So Stephanie, we have had over the past two and a half years, probably one of our number one topics we've covered is our education system in America, or as you refer to it as our

0:33.6

government school system. And just things that are happening, not just from academic wise, but things that people

0:40.7

need to be aware of, curriculums, narratives that are being produced, all kinds of things.

0:47.0

Why your children are changing and you can't figure it out?

0:52.2

There may be answers to that.

0:54.0

Yes.

0:54.5

So today we have someone on who has an experience with that as a school board president and very

1:01.2

active participant in his local district and sharing some things that he's seen happening

1:07.4

and giving warnings to parents about why you need to say, and we say it all the

1:12.1

time, be aware of what's happening and be involved. Absolutely. You have to be involved.

1:18.1

If you're not involved, you don't know what's going on. And that's honestly the reason that your

1:23.5

children are coming home with issues, in my a lot of times because you know things work

1:30.6

from the top down and the top is not great and so it is time to be aware I'm Stephanie

1:37.7

Coxon I'm Kathy Anderson Martin and we are two women inspiring real life. So let's twirl.

1:49.6

So this morning we have welcome Brian Drap.

1:55.0

And Brian, if you could just give a little bit of background of yourself, one is your professional experience and experience within school districts.

1:59.7

Well, thank you very much, Kathy, and Stephanie.

2:02.3

It's an honor to be on here.

2:03.4

I've listened to your shows before, and I think you're doing a great service to everyone.

2:08.1

And there's so much that's applicable out there to, you know, to parents.

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