Ladies and gentlemen, in the last few years, the American people have been asking, what can they do to improve American education?

And today, I think we have some pretty good ideas.

Our crusade for excellence in education. But let's not get ourselves.

We are not doing our children any favors

by continuing to subsidize practices that don't work

and failing to invest in practices that do.

And we owe the children of America a good education,

and today begins a new era, a new time in public education

in our country. There is no child whose opportunity should be stunted because of failing schools.

This is Robbie Gupta and you're listening to The Regressives. This is a narrative podcast

series from the lost debate that examines progressive policies, ideas, and leaders in practice.

And I'm a veteran of progressive political campaigns. And I have a lot of belief in a lot of

things that we've stood for over the past few decades. It's been an animating part of my life.

But I wanted to start this podcast and this podcast

series because there's a lot of flaws in the way that we're going about our business as progressives.

And so we use this podcast almost as like an ombudsman for progressives to try to shine the

light on any flaws that we have so we can hope to eliminate them. So whether you're progressive

or not,

though, you're going to find these conversations fascinating, particularly today's conversation.

Now, if you came to this feed for the regular lost debate episodes, we're going to be right

back with regular episode Thursday. But especially if you're a regular listener to the lost

debate, you often hear me talk about something I call education reform. And this is like a mystical term that really we haven't unpacked enough on

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