Who’s Afraid of Parental Choice in Education?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
For decades, thought leaders throughout America have advocated for school choice. Now, the effort to give parents the final say in how their children are educated is growing. Some even call it, “A revolution.” Michele talks with author and Notre Dame law professor, Nicole Garnett.
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| 0:00.8 | Welcome to another episode of Sidelined Sanity with me, Michelle Tofoya. |
| 0:04.9 | Please subscribe. |
| 0:05.8 | We'd love to have you listen every day. |
| 0:07.8 | You know I'm a big school choice advocate. |
| 0:10.7 | And it's happening. |
| 0:12.0 | It's happening. |
| 0:12.9 | A lot of states are designing programs that give parental choice to a lot of families |
| 0:18.4 | as to how to spend tax dollars on their own kids' individual needs, |
| 0:24.7 | educational needs. But there are some bumps along the way, and this is a growing issue. It's been in |
| 0:31.2 | the works for decades, but it's just now starting to kind of bloom, if you will. But more is to come. Is this a revolution |
| 0:40.1 | about to explode? Our next guest believes that it is. Her name is Nicole Garnett. She's with the |
| 0:46.5 | Manhattan Institute. And she's also edited a book called The Case for Parental Choice, a collection |
| 0:52.1 | of essays by John E. Coons, which DeCole and her husband helped edit. |
| 0:57.1 | Fascinating information. What's the difference between a voucher and an ESA, which is an education savings account? |
| 1:03.3 | How were different states approaching parental rights, parental choice in education? Good stuff coming up with Nicole. Stick around. |
| 1:14.3 | For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines. She started very young. |
| 1:20.3 | She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national championships. |
| 1:26.7 | And now, during these insane times in our world, |
| 1:30.3 | Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose of sanity. |
| 1:35.4 | This is sideline sanity with your host, |
| 1:39.1 | one of the sanest people on planet Earth. |
| 1:41.9 | Michelle Tofoya. |
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