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Conservative legal activists are determined to use the Oklahoma school as a means of undermining the entire separation of church and state. Blue states, which ban both discrimination and the use of public monies for religious education, may soon find themselves with no choice but to fund both.

Returning to the show for the third time, Jennifer C. Berkshire wrote the American Prospect article, "Breaking the Public Schools: Red states are enacting universal education vouchers, threatening budget calamity and potentially degrading student achievement." Jennifer is the host of the education podcast 'Have You Heard' and the author, with another past guest Jack Schneider, of "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual." "Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.

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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).

Breaking the Public Schools / Jennifer Berkshire

Jennifer Berkshire

Inside the libertarian plot to tear down public education.

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