Ed Post Conversations

4: Why the education department scrapped a parent council

Episode Summary

Brightbeam CEO Chris Stewart chats with Keri Rodrigues, president of the National Parents Union on how a group of conservative parents got the Ed. Department to disband a parent council. Learn more about the controversy here: https://www.the74million.org/article/targeted-by-lawsuit-ed-dept-abruptly-scraps-parent-council/

Episode Notes

(3:00-9:00) how the parent council was started and why Miguel Cardona folded under the pressure of a lawsuit from conservative parents

(10:00 - 17:50) Keri and Chris express disappointment in Cardon and Bideon for failing parents on the ground and the cost…and what Trump would have done.

(18:00- 30:00)  the intersection of power, interests, elections and where that puts parents and families.

(30:00-45:00) what’s going right and wrong in schools with student achievement