Education On The Line

Advancing Education Success Initiative

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 Educ...

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Education On The Line

Episodes (28)

Mon Apr 6th As costs rise, and enrollments dip, can school districts meet teacher demands?
Mar 18th The Push to Keep Undocumented Students Out Of School: Will It Succeed?
Mar 3rd Inside Trump's Stealth School Voucher Program: What's At Stake

Education On The Line

Apr 6, 2026
36½ minutes
25 MB

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 afford to live in the districts where they work. That’s especially the case in high cost states like California where teachers and other staff are walking off the job in record numbers So how do you give teachers the raises that almost everyone agrees they need without triggering deep cuts or even risking insolvency? And is it even possible? In this ep...

Education On The Line

As costs rise, and enrollments dip, can school districts meet teacher demands?

Advancing Education Success Initiative

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