The Learning Curve: DFI’s Jim Blew on Federal Education Tax Credit Program

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this week’s episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Alisha Searcy and Dr. Cara Candal of ExcelinEd interview former assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education and co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI), Jim Blew. Mr. Blew reflects on his tenure in federal education leadership and his motivation for establishing DFI. He […]

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Learning Curve podcast.
0:26.0	I'm Alicia Thomas Sersu, one of your co-hosts.
0:28.8	And guess what?
0:29.8	We have another guest host today, and you might recognize the voice.
0:37.1	So let's see. Hi, Alicia. It's so good to be with you. Car the voice. Hi, Alicia.
0:38.9	It's so good to be with you.
0:41.1	Kara Candel is wonderful to have you.
0:43.8	Welcome home.
0:45.2	Thank you so much.
0:46.4	It's been way too long.
0:48.5	I'm the OG of the learning curve, right?
0:51.7	You totally are.
0:52.8	You absolutely are.
0:53.8	So I feel honored that you're co-hosting with me today.
0:56.8	Oh, it's just such a pleasure to be with you.
0:58.4	Anytime I get to hang out with you and the pioneer crew is my favorite time.
1:02.8	Yes.
1:03.4	Well, we are happy to have you, happy to have all that energy.
1:06.5	And so we have a really good show today.
1:08.1	We've got Jim Blue on, who's the co-founder of the Defense of Freedom Institute. And of course, yes. It's going to be a great conversation. But before we do that, of course, we have to do our stories of the week. And since you are our guest host, I'm going to ask you to go first with your story. Oh, you're going to ask me to go first.
1:28.5	Okay, surprise, surprise. Well, people who have been listening to this show for a long time,
1:32.8	there have to be a lot of you, I bet, right? Know that any time a story comes out about Massachusetts,
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