This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics.

Thank you for joining us here at Pantsuit Politics.

Today we're going to continue the conversation we started on Tuesday about the state of schools here in America.

In our last episode we tackled higher education and today we're going to be talking about the state of public K through 12 education.

When a topic is as big as this one, it's intimidating and it's easier to tackle the like day-to-day headlines and controversies,

but we take a different approach here at Pantsuit Politics and we didn't want to shy away from something as important as this just because it is both huge,

but it's societally and incredibly emotional personally.

So that's what we're going to try to do today and as always we'll wrap up with what's on our mind outside politics,

which is should you track your kids?

And we know that you're going to have thoughts about that.

One way we love to continue our conversations is with our premium members on Patreon.

There's always a really vibrant discussion there after an episode and it's so fun for us.

We learn a lot from it. It definitely influences what we're going to discuss next here on the show.

So if you aren't already a premium member now is a great time to consider becoming one.

We're in the middle of our biannual premium drive.

On Tuesday you got to hear from Elise, our managing director about her work and how your support makes it possible.

Today we wanted to let our community engagement manager full time employee of Pantsuit Politics number two.

Maggie share a little bit more about her work.

Hello, my name is Maggie Pinton and I'm the community engagement manager here at Pantsuit Politics.

One of my roles on the teams to manage our social media channels, Zera and Bath creates so much content on the podcast and our premium channels every day.

And I try to take that and share it in our social media in a way to give you a place to add to the conversation.

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