120. Rachel Gibson and Sarah Smolen on Navigating the Culture War over Public Education

The culture war these days is heavily focused on schools, with
many prominent elected officials in Nebraska calling for
defunding public education in favor of vouchers for charter
schools. Today Rachel Gibson and Sarah Smolen talk to Tom
Knoblauch about the education climate, how to navigate a culture
war that often is intentionally vague and operating in bad faith
and possible solutions they are offering through their work on
the Education Policy Action Team for the League of Women Voters
of Nebraska, which has just launched Schools 101: an awareness
initiative for parents, neighbors, community groups, advocacy
groups, and anyone impacted by public education here in
Nebraska. 


Learn more about Schools 101 here.