Watchdog.org Podcast

This is “Sit Down, Shut Up,” Watchdog.org’s podcast examining education issues at the national, state and local levels.   Host Ben Yount takes a critical look at the education establishment, the growth of school choice and the ways free markets can be a part of fixing America’s broken school system. In this week’s episode, Yount is joined by Watchdog education reporter Moriah Costa to discuss some legislation in a variety of states that would increase the number of charter schools and other school choice options.  Is the breakdown in being able to pay for traditional public schools going to be the thing that finally breaks through legislative oppisiton to school choice? Or, perhaps, is it the growth of empowered minority families who are demanding better schools for their kids in America's inner cities?