Live at 4pm ET/1pm PT: Lisa Snell Talks School Choice with Reason TV!
Please tune in to Hit & Run at Reason.com at 4pm ET/1pm PT to watch a live conversation with Lisa Snell, the director of education and child welfare policy at Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes this site. Snell is perhaps best known as the person who helped defeat a 2006 California ballot initiative for Universal Preschool. The new law, which was championed by moviemaker and actor Rob Reiner, would have cost over $100,000 per each new preschooler added while delivering no clear educational benefits.
Snell has a master's in communication from Cal State, publishes widely on school choice and foster care reform, and works with federal, state, and local officials to implement reforms designed to give more power to individual kids and parents. Read her bio here.
Snell will be interviewed by Reason TV's Tracy Oppenheimer live from our new studio in Los Angeles. The topics covered will include the Obama administration's national standards, pushback by teachers unions against school choice, the efficacy of letting parents and kids select their schools, and whether vouchers, charters, and similar reforms don't go far enough in challenging the educational status quo.
Please come back to Hit & Run at 4pm ET/1pm PT to watch the half-hour show.
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Thank you, Lisa Snell. Even though I'm not a Californian, stopping this at least slowed the march of statism and will make it more difficult to implement elsewhere.
Why did they schedule this during US / Honduras?
A masters in communication from "Cal State"? I wondered what slimepit it must be that Nick didn't even want to mention it, and actually guessed correctly, Fullerton. Come See Us Fail at CSUF.