On this week’s episode we sat down with Tim DeRoche, President of Available to All, an organization dedicated to ensuring that public schools are available to all students on equal terms. We talk with DeRoche about his new brief on eliminating education redlining, the latest installment from Education Reform Now’s public school choice series, featuring a collection of briefs updated weekly from guest authors.

Tim DeRoche Brief: https://edreformnow.org/2023/10/10/its-time-to-make-open-enrollment-a-civil-rights-issue/

ERN Public School Choice Series: https://edreformnow.org/publicschoolchoice/

Today we sat down with Liam Kerr, Co-Founder of the ​​WelcomePAC, and its partner The Welcome Party, an organization which serves to strengthen democracy and create a “big tent” Democratic Party by linking allies from across the political spectrum and from a variety of geographies and partisan backgrounds. We talk with Kerr about the necessity of allying with centrist factions, creating effectives education policies in a post-Covid and post-Trump society, and combating voter’s decline in trust with Democrat’s current stance on education.

“The Second Coming of Ed Reform" by Liam Kerr >> https://www.welcomestack.org/p/the-second-coming-of-ed-reform

In today’s episode we sat down with Ravis Martinez, who is currently running for state representative in Louisiana’s district 44, discussing the current state of Louisiana’s public education system, the roadmap for ed reform as an elected official in the state, and how the Leaders of Color program helped him get there.

Find out more about Leaders of Color >> https://www.leadersofcolor.net/