The Voters Speak: Post-Election Lessons for America’s Schools
ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÊÓ and PPI host a webinar about education politics and school choice in the 2022 election cycle
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Voters delivered powerful messages on Election Day, not all of them consistent: They want schools to focus on education, not culture wars. Vouchers got a boost in Oklahoma but were rejected in Wisconsin. The red wave never materialized, but neither did a blue one.
These post-election crosscurrents were the topic of a webinar sponsored by ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÊÓ and the Progressive Policy Institute’s Reinventing America’s Schools project, featuring Andy Rotherham, a member of the Virginia State School Board and ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÊÓ’s Board of Directors; journalist and author Anya Kamenetz; Michael Hartney of the Hoover Institute; George Parker, former educator, teachers union president and adviser to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools; and 74 Senior Writer Kevin Mahnken. The event was moderated by PPI’s Tressa Pankovits.
Read ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÊÓ’s election coverage:
- Second-Highest Youth Midterm Voter Turnout in 3 Decades, Early Estimates Show
- DeSantis Solidifies Control of Florida Ed Policy With Pickup of 6 School Board Seats
- Wisconsin Re-Elects Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, Derails Push for School Vouchers
- Easily Winning 2nd Term, Oklahoma Gov. Stitt Plans to Move Forward on School Vouchers
- Read all of ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÊÓ’s 2022 election coverage here.
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