Turning the Tide in Public Education with Sheri Few
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Many people don’t realize how long the public schools have been in trouble. Sheri Few does. Twenty years ago, as a concerned parent of three boys in public schools, Sheri Few founded South Carolina Parents Involved in Education (SCPIE), a grassroots organization committed to education excellence through the meaningful involvement of parents in their children’s education. In 2015, Sheri expanded the organization nationally to become United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE), which has 20 state chapters and growing. Sheri currently serves as president of USPIE.
Today we’re focusing on the crisis in our Public Education System and what you can do right now to begin to make a positive difference.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Heidi St. John. Welcome to Off the Bench. Today is Thursday, March 31st. |
| 0:05.8 | And today I'm excited to have a new friend on the show. Sherry Fiew is on the show with me today. |
| 0:10.8 | And she is running for a state superintendent of education in South Carolina. And today we're |
| 0:16.3 | going to spend a little bit of time about what got this mom of air off the bench. And onto the |
| 0:21.0 | battlefield in the area of education. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:33.2 | So I'm glad you guys are joining me today. As always, I'm going to spend just a moment here |
| 0:37.2 | letting you guys know what's going on with me. As you heard my guest Leslie Nennery say yesterday |
| 0:42.0 | on the show, I'm going to be in Round Rock Texas today and tomorrow for the homeschooling conference |
| 0:48.7 | there. If you guys are anywhere in the area, I just want to encourage you like I always do. |
| 0:53.6 | These are wonderful opportunities for you to come out to be encouraged to get better at homeschooling, |
| 0:59.3 | to learn a little bit about homeschooling. A lot of you are brand new to home education and homeschool |
| 1:05.6 | conferences. I think are one of the most important aspects of just getting yourself plugged in and |
| 1:10.6 | getting educated and meeting new friends and really learning how to be successful at homeschooling. |
| 1:15.6 | So I will be there. It teaches them diligently this weekend. So I'm there tonight and I'll be |
| 1:20.9 | there tomorrow. Please go to Heidi St. John dot com forts slash events for more information. And |
| 1:25.6 | you can also register there. All right. I'm very pleased today. A mutual friend of mine recently |
| 1:31.0 | introduced me to Sherry Fio. I looked up on the internet was so impressed by her platform and |
| 1:36.2 | what she's doing that my husband and I donated to her campaign. She's running for state superintendent |
| 1:41.2 | of education in the state of South Carolina. You guys know how concerned I am with education, |
| 1:48.0 | particularly as it relates to the public school system here in the United States. And Sherry |
| 1:52.2 | understands that 20 years ago she was a concerned parent of three boys in the public schools. And |
| 1:57.8 | she founded South Carolina parents involved in education, which was a grassroots organization |
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