Education On The Line
Education On The Line (formerly titled Sparking Equity) is a podcast focusing on the mounting political, financial, legal and ideological threats to public education. It will provide strategies to help education leaders and decisionmakers traverse the current perilous education landscape.
Join media innovator and veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg as he interviews school leaders about how they are coping with attacks on public schools emanating from Washington D.C. -- while staying focused on how to ensure that all students succeed.
The advisor for the podcast (and occasional guest host) is Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education.
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Education On The Line
Latest Episodes
Shrink Smart or Suffer: Lessons from the Enrollment Crisis
Empty classrooms can bankrupt a school district faster than almost anyone wants to admit. When enrollment falls, funding falls with it, and suddenly a district built for 20,000 students is trying to survive with half that number while still pay...
Coping with Declining Enrollment: Fewer Kids, Harder Choices -- and No End In Sight
Enrollment is falling in many schools across the nation, and the ripple effects are showing up everywhere: budget deficits, program cuts, labor tension, and the gut-wrenching necessity in many districts to close schools. We look at the reality ...
Should Democratic States Opt Into Trump's Stealth School Voucher Plan?
Here’s a question that Democratic governors across the country will have to wrestle with in the months ahead: should they opt into President Trump’s upcoming federal tax credit scholarship program, or hold the line against what will be the firs...
As costs rise, and enrollments dip, can school districts meet teacher demands?
School districts across California and the nation are caught in a financial vise. Enrollments are falling, federal COVID relief funds have been depleted, and costs keep rising. Meanwhile, growing numbers of teacher's can't even affo...
The Push to Keep Undocumented Students Out Of School: Will It Succeed?
The Supreme Court's landmark 1982 Plyler v. Doe decision established that every child in America has the right to a public education, regardless of immigration status. For 43 years, that ruling has kept schoolhouse doors open to undocumented ch...
