Old School, New School, Next School with Dom Giordano

Episode 7

Guest: Ryan Walters, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma. Subject: The recent passage of President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" and its impact on school choice.

Episode 6

Guest: Rev. Joshua Robertson, CEO and Founder of Black Pastors United for Education. Subjects: The organization supports educating children in non-traditional learning spaces.

Episode 5

Guest: Rich Valdes, host, “America at Night”
Subjects: The charter school that he founded and still helps to direct. School choice and Jersey's governor's race and its inclusion in the Big Beautiful Bill.

Episode 4

Guest: Rep. Kevin Kiley, Chair of the House Subcommittee that covers K-12 Education on the school choice money that is in the Big Beautiful Bill.
Subjects: According to our guest, this money a once - in- a generation chance for a school choice revolution across America and it has a really good chance to pass.

Episode 3

Guest: Steve Miller, who founder Ascend Learning, a wildly successful charter school group in NYC. He was canceled due to his opposition to DEI but has bounced back to found another very successful group of charter schools. 
Topics: How parents should evaluate the best charter school for their child, and debunking some of the worst critiques of the charter school model.

Episode 2

Guest:  Stacy Garrity, Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania  
 
Topics:  The cost savings of school choice and how the issue will play out in the upcoming governor's race against the Democrats' leading presidential candidate, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.

Episode 1

Guest:  Ryan N. Boyer, Business Manager of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Consortium, a consortium of more than 50 labor unions and 40,00 workers.  
 
Topics: How and why this major labor leader could be such a strong supporter of school choice. "I'd be a hypocrite to oppose school choice - because I've exercised it myself."