Unpacking Project 2025: Education is an Everyone Issue
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As part of a special season on Project 2025, A'shanti is zooming in on two key states -- Arizona and Florida -- which have served as a model and playbook for conservative education policies. Among these are school vouchers, book bans, and cuts to public school funding. A'shanti is joined by Maria Polletta, an education equity reporter with the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, and Michi Ceard and Muah Dahn, organizers with Florida Student Power, to explore the impact of these policies.
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for women of color to learn about the current state of politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible women changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog in 2018 and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
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| 1:02.9 | As California's Attorney General, Kamla Harris took on the big banks in Wall Street, and now she's looking to give first--time home buyers $25,000 for a down payment. |
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| 1:37.3 | Over the past few years, states like Arizona and Florida have been a testing ground |
| 1:43.3 | and a playbook for what conservatives want to see in education, |
| 1:47.6 | including school vouchers, book bans, cutting back on public school funding, and more. |
| 1:55.0 | So I thought, who better than a reporter and activist on the ground to give us a sense of what Project |
| 2:01.1 | 2025 proposals look like in the States. |
| 2:04.9 | I'm thrilled to bring in Maria Palletta, a reporter with the Arizona Center for |
| 2:10.5 | Investigative Reporting, whose work focuses on education with a specific lens to equity. |
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