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. Sign up at link below so we can keep you posted on future episodes to help inform your decisionmaking. https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/gVZTFcZ

Education On The Line is a education podcast hosted by Advancing Education Success Initiative, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Advancing Education Success Initiative hosts Education On The Line, a education show with 33 episodes published.

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  When Civil Rights Law Becomes A Political Weapon

  Sep 16, 202630 minS0

  <p>Arguably no other university has come under a broader attack from the Trump Administration than the University of California, the nation's largest public research university, one renowned for its excellence. Last year alone, it set a record for the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to faculty from one institution in a single year. </p><p>In this episode, we get a rare insider's portrait of how the Trump Administration is targeting the university by alleging rampant anti-semitism throughout the system. Host Louis Freedberg interviews Ejaz Baluch, who until May 2025 was a senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division o...

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  What Does "Patriotic Education" Mean in the Age of Donald Trump?

  Jun 9, 202632 minS0

  <p>Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is currently traveling to all 50 states with its History Rocks! campaign.  It's a year-long effort to promote President Trump's vision of"patriotic education, backed by a coalition of 40 conservative and right wing organizations, including the  Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, and Turning Point USA. Not a single organization representing a different point of view is represented.  </p><p>In our latest episode, host Louis Freedberg talks with Jon Zimmerman, professor of history and education at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of  "Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools," about what a more authentic form...

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  Shrink Smart or Suffer: Lessons from the Enrollment Crisis

  Jun 1, 202628 minS0

  <p>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 paying for staff, services, and aging buildings. That’s the reality driving one of the biggest public education challenges in the country right now: declining school enrollment. <br/><br/>In this follow-up episode on the enrolled We’re joined by Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, and Rubén Aurelio, superintendent of Vallejo City Unified north of San Fr...

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  Coping with Declining Enrollment: Fewer Kids, Harder Choices -- and No End In Sight

  May 12, 202636 minS0

  <p>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 many leaders face right now: what do you do when the problem is not temporary and the student population may not stabilize for decades?<br/><br/>We’re joined by Julien LaFortune of the Public Policy Institute of California, who breaks down the data behind declining enrollment, from lower birth rates to shifting migration and immigration patterns.  Funding follows students, so dis...

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  Should Democratic States Opt Into Trump's Stealth School Voucher Plan?

  Apr 28, 202626 minS0

  <p>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 first federally funded private school voucher scheme?</p><p>Because of the sweeping nature of the plan, this is a follow up to an earlier episode of Education on the Line examining on the issue.  The program, approved by Congress as part of the  One Big Beautiful Bill, allows every taxpayer to "donate" up to $1,700 to scholarship-granting organizations -- and...

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