Democracy and Education

Long-time education writer Karin Chenoweth talks with people around the country who are running for school board, serving on a school board, and working on school board campaigns about the issues they are facing and the problems they are solving. The first three episodes, produced in 2023, document the way three communities faced down extremism. In 2024, the podcast pivots to an interview format with some of the most inspiring folks around.

Democracy and Education is a news podcast hosted by Karin Chenoweth, with 12 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.

Karin Chenoweth hosts Democracy and Education, a news show with 12 episodes published.

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  Democracy and Education

  Confronting Extremism in Florida

  Jun 9, 202550 minS0

  <p>Florida is the birthplace of Moms for Liberty. It is also the state where the governor has spent millions of dollars to elect extremist members of school boards around the state who have banned books, fired superintendents, and in general wreaked havoc on local school systems.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the face of that, communities around the state have come together to elect pro-public education school board members.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode, Karin Chenoweth talks with three who won in 2024.</p><p>·      Stephanie Vanos, who defeated a Moms for Liberty candidate in Orange County...

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  Episode 11: Extremism on the Ground

  May 19, 202532 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Democracy and Education, Bobby Omari, who lost his bid for a school board seat in California’s Chino Valley United School District, shares the lessons he learned and the lessons he thinks others can learned from his campaign.</p><p><br /></p><p>Among other things, he thinks he underestimated the political sway a Christian Nationalist mega-church has in local politics, including in “harvesting” thousands of votes of its parishioners—that is, gathering mail-in votes and delivering them to the election board.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although Omari and his volunteers knocked thousands of doors, h...

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  Episode 10: Extremism: The Big Picture

  Apr 7, 202556 minS0

  <p>When education researcher and parent Jamie Martin first heard NBC’s podcast about the Southlake Families, the group that had taken the majority of the school board in the Carroll School District in Texas proclaiming their allegiance to “parental rights,” she noticed that their web site looked remarkably like that of Francis Howell Families in her Missouri district. It had the same branding and the same language attacking critical race theory, transgender children, and teachers.</p><p><br /></p><p>That started her down the path of researching the influence of national organizations on local school board races.</p><p><br...

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  Episode 9: Rejecting Extremism

  Aug 7, 202442 minS0

  <p>Democracy and Education</p><p>Episode 9</p><p>Rejecting Extremism</p><p> </p><p>Alarmed by the allegations made by Libs for TikTok and Moms for Liberty, Courtney Gore ran for school board in her home town of Granbury Texas in 2021. </p><p><br /></p><p>Once on the board, she searched for the evidence of indoctrination and the sexualization of children she had been warned of. When she found none, she went back to her community to tell them the good news. But they didn’t want to hear it and cut ties with her.</p><p><br /></p><...

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  Episode 8: Running a Winning Campaign in Ohio

  Jun 18, 202443 minS0

  <p>When Sara Bitter ran for school board in a suburban district in Cincinnati, it was after she had already run twice for the state legislature. She knew how to run a contested campaign.</p><p><br /></p><p>But she thought running for the non-partisan school board seat would be different—less contentious, less political. After all, she says, most people just want school board members who will be a good steward of tax dollars and ensure that the children of the community are educated.</p><p>Then outside money flooded into her district, funding her opponents who used th...

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