Old School, New School, Next School with Dom Giordano

Episode 11

Today Dom reviews the first ten episodes of his new podcast. He reflects on the school choice advocacy experiences of past guests and discusses his motivation in supporting this important issue.

Episode 10

Guest: Peter Murphy, Vice President and Senior Advisor at Invest In Education Foundation. Subjects: Peter's Congressional lobbying efforts and support for K-12 scholarship tax credits.

Episode 9

Guest: Pastor Bob Oliver of New Covenant Church of Philadelphia, member of Black Pastors Union for Education.
Subject: The success of Pastor Oliver's cyber charter school in Philadelphia.
Subject: Black Pastor Union’s Views and Doings regarding School Choice.

Episode 8

Guest: Corey DeAngles, Senior Fellow at the American Culture Project.
Subject: Due to his strong advocacy, DeAngles is known as "the school choice evangelist."

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.