One of the things they're so excited about in Arizona are these for-profit micro-schools, and that's an idea where somebody - they're not even called a teacher, they're called a 'guide,' and they don't require any specialized training, any degree, any certification - they run a little school for up to ten kids out of their house, the way an Uber driver works out of their car. The idea is that it's radically cheaper, it has no regulation, and this is a model Charles Koch continues to push.

Historian Jack Schneider and journalist Jennifer Berkshire explore the right's systematic, decades-long attack on public schools - through the defunding of districtions and demoralizing students, educators and parents - in partnership with a neoliberal Democratic Party willing to sell out children and workers for the same libertarian elites.

Jack and Jennifer are authors of the book A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School from The New Press.

Guest

Jack Schneider

@Edu_Historian

Jack Schneider is a writer, historian and host of the education podcast Have You Heard.

Guest

Jennifer Berkshire

@BisforBerkshire

Jennifer Berkshire writes about education and politics for The Nation, The New Republic, The Washington Post, and other publications. The creator and co-host of the education policy podcast “Have You Heard” she teaches aspiring podcasters in the journalism program at Boston College and the Labor Studies program at UMass Amherst. Berkshire discovered her passion for storytelling while covering a series of bitter labor battles that wracked her native Midwest in the early 1990’s. Additionally, she’s the author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School (New Press, 2020).

Inside the libertarian plot to tear down public education.

Jack Schneider

Jennifer Berkshire

Breaking the Public Schools / Jennifer Berkshire

How school privatization became the Democratic Party's class project.