Corey DeAngelis: The Case for School Choice
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Corey DeAngelis on school choice
1:01 – Funding students instead of institutions
2:39 – Does school choice defund public schools?
5:48 – Lou's public school teachers and magnet schools
7:51 – Charter schools, magnet schools, and admissions
9:25 – Why call them government schools?
11:19 – Pell grants, pre-K, and food stamps
13:42 – Creaming and special needs students
16:00 – Rising per-pupil spending and the DC voucher program
19:53 – Schools that won't reopen during the pandemic
23:47 – Teachers unions and political demands
25:57 – Administrative bloat and teacher pay
28:36 – Competition raises public school teacher salaries
30:03 – What makes a good teacher or education?
32:32 – Can low-income families choose wisely?
35:17 – School lotteries and charter funding gaps
38:55 – John Oliver and failing charter schools
41:27 – Betsy DeVos and the billionaire argument
43:41 – School choice as an equalizer
45:16 – Samantha Bee, Elizabeth Warren, and hypocrisy
48:52 – Joe Biden and for-profit charter schools
51:42 – Fact-checking the Washington Post
56:04 – John Taylor Gatto and the factory model
58:33 – Unschooling and learning through interest
1:00:26 – Why foreign languages start too late
1:02:09 – What Corey wishes he'd learned in school
1:04:47 – Wrap-up: first grade test anxiety
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Corey DeAngelis, Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, executive director at the Educational Freedom Institute, and one of Forbes' 30 Under 30, joins Lou to talk about school choice, teachers unions, and fact-checking the media.
We also get into funding students instead of institutions, whether school choice defunds public schools, why call them government schools, creaming and special needs students, the DC voucher program, schools that wouldn't reopen during the pandemic, administrative bloat, John Oliver and failing charters, Betsy DeVos, fact-checking the Washington Post, unschooling, and which of them used to pee his pants before tests (it's Lou).