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🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Arizona was the first state in the country to adopt universal school vouchers. But who is benefiting from this program, and who gets left behind? With school voucher questions on several state ballots right now, we look at lessons from Arizona in our latest collaboration with ProPublica.
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0:00.0 | Hey it's Meghna and I've got a quick story before we get you to today's episode and please please please don't |
0:06.7 | don't tap advanced 15 seconds just yet because this story is kind of fun. |
0:12.0 | You know how over the past few episodes I've been talking |
0:14.8 | about how on point is a show that never quits? Well, over the entirety of my career, |
0:21.7 | the desire to never quit has really kept me going. |
0:26.0 | And it's sometimes gotten me into a few scrapes. But I hear you very strenuously trying to not answer a question here. |
0:42.2 | I am answering your question. We don't know what that |
0:45.0 | number is. Let's all get vaccinated and you'll know it when you see it. |
0:49.3 | Last question, how are you doing? I'm doing fine. You're wearing me down. |
0:54.0 | I'm not. |
0:55.0 | I'm Mr. George, I understand you're saying a lot of things and if I can just jump in here. |
1:03.2 | I don't, I mean, I've heard a couple of thoughts here. |
1:07.1 | I've heard a couple of thoughts and I just want to ask you, I just want to ask you about, |
1:12.1 | don't necessarily want to talk over each other so forgive me for doing this but you |
1:16.2 | You interrupt me all the time. Well, you've said a couple of very interesting things. I just want to explore them a little bit further here. |
1:23.0 | You're missing the point. |
1:25.0 | So I just want to get a couple of things clear. |
1:27.0 | Are you equating the United States Court of Law |
1:30.0 | as being equivalent or worse than a Soviet court? |
1:34.4 | I'm just saying that's the way the Soviet system works. |
1:37.5 | But we're talking about a state in the United States of America. |
1:41.5 | And you really haven't seen, I don't know much about Oregon. I actually grew up in Oregon. I lived there from the time I was two to the time I was 23 in Corvallis, Oregon, in fact. |
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