PEP Talk Episode 39: How Do YOU Advocate?
On this episode of PEP Talk: Kat Sturdevant interviews superintendents from around the country about how they advocate for public education not only for their schools, but also for their communities a...
26 Juni 202533min
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 Apr 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 Mars 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Nov 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 Okt 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 Sep 202424min
