After years of dealing
with decreased education funding, the teachers are revolting in states around
the country. Today, teachers are walking out of public schools in Kentucky and
Oklahoma—the latest in a movement of educators rallying for fair pay and support
in red states that have been under-funding schools. National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García was at the massive rally Oklahoma
educators are having at the Capitol. She joins me today to talk about the
experience on the ground and the larger shifts educators are advocating for.
Since we last spoke
with John Nichols of The Nation a lot has happened—the court
has compelled Governor Scott Walker to hold special elections in Wisconsin yet
again, but now he’s going after other executive offices, plus tariff talk
continues as the stock market dips. John returns to the show today to talk all
about these issues and whole lot more, John is The Nation’s national-affairs correspondent, a contributing writer
for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor
of The Capital Times, the daily
newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.
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