
PEP Talk Episode 38: The K-12 Cases in the Supreme Court
What’s at stake for K-12 schools at the U.S. Supreme Court? Kat Sturdevant interviews Sonja Trainor, executive director of the National School Attorneys Association, to break down the key education ca...
25 Huhti 202538min

PEP Talk Episode 37: How Medicaid Cuts Will Harm Students & Schools Report
On this episode of PEP Talk: Kat Sturdevant is joined by Jessie Mandle, National Program Director of the Healthy Schools Campaign, to deep dive the Campaign's new report about how Medicaid cuts will s...
27 Maalis 202524min

PEP Talk Episode 36: School Voucher Update 2025
On this episode of PEP Talk: Kat Sturdevant gets a much anticipated update from Sasha Pudelski, AASA's Director of Advocacy on where the school voucher movement currently stands in the 119th Congress,...
26 Helmi 202521min

PEP Talk Episode 35: The Cost of Divisive Conflict on School Districts and Superintendents
On this episode of PEP Talk: Noelle Ellerson Ng interviews Dr. Rachel S. White, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin College of Edu...
23 Tammi 202542min

PEP Talk Episode 34: The E-Rate Saga
On this episode of PEP Talk: Kat Sturdevant gets into the weeds on the current saga of the FCC's Universal Service Fund and E-Rate with Jon Bernstein, an education technology and telecommunications lo...
21 Marras 202430min

PEP Talk Episode 33: Education in the 2024 Election
On this episode of PEP Talk: Kat Sturdevant deep dives the role of education in the 2024 presidential election with Jonathan Voss, partner at Lake Research Partners, a national public opinion and poli...
24 Loka 202427min

PEP Talk Episode 32: School District Spending of American Rescue Plan Funding Report
On this episode of PEP Talk: Kat Sturdevant discusses the newest edition of the American Rescue Plan Report with Sasha Pudelski, Director of Advocacy at AASA, just in time for the ESSER obligation dea...
19 Syys 202424min

PEP Talk Episode 31: The 2024 Title IX Regulations
On this episode of PEP Talk: Kat Sturdevant interviews Holly McIntush, partner at Thompson & Horton LLP and Jackie Gharapour Wernz, partner at ECR Solutions LLC, two powerhouse Title IX experts about ...
21 Kesä 202452min



















