Hi, I'm Jasmine Clark, one of the hosts of the suburban women problem, and this month we're sharing a brand new limited series called The Cost of Extremism.

Extremists across the country are attacking our freedoms and kids and families are paying the price.

As a mom, I know that there's no room in the budget for political corruption, especially when it comes to our kids.

This new four-episode series is a deep dive into active shooter drills, school vouchers,

extremist school boards, and more. Amanda, Rachel, and I will be back in September,

so in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this investigation into the true cost of extremism.

Extremists across the country are attacking our freedoms, and kids and families are paying the price.

This is the cost of extremism.

As soon as you switch to a system where the schools do the choosing, and that's really what school choice is, discrimination is built into that.

We're building systems based on instability, which actually doesn't make sense if your goal is to educate children.

It's just fewer dollars going into our schools, which are already struggling.

Episode 2, School Vouchers.

In recent years, we've seen a surge of attacks against public education.

The phrase school choice has been recklessly thrown around, admits the culture wars that riddle our education system,

all in attempt to gain control of what is being taught to our children and further segregate

our schools. And at the middle of the fight are school vouchers. You may have heard those words

before, whether it was from the mouth of former United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

or from programs being pushed by right-wing politicians.

But what does that even mean?

So school vouchers are basically the state decides that it will give taxpayer funds,

money collected from taxpayers, either directly to private schools or to parents to then

go spend at private schools.

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