Hi, kara. Its so wonderful to be here talking you today about your book. I wanted to first say what an extraordinary achievement this book is. The most authoritative history that ive personally ever read of the School Choice movement is so thoroughly researched it really it really feels encyclopedic to me. Almost like it is everything you would ever need to know. I wanted to first ask, im obviously familiar with your incredible work as education reporter and. I know a lot of education reporters have these sort of crystallizing moments in reporting where were in classroom or with a family and we have an aha moment. Im curious, know if you had one of those moments that led you to start writing this book. Its a good i think i think you know i started thinking about the School Choice movement when i was reporting about segregation in florida and as part of that reporting, we interviewed our team interviewed just dozens of families that were essentially trying to escape the segregated sort
Hi, kara. Its so wonderful to be here talking you today about your book. I wanted to first say what an extraordinary achievement this book is. The most authoritative history that ive personally ever read of the School Choice movement is so thoroughly researched it really it really feels encyclopedic to me. Almost like it is everything you would ever need to know. I wanted to first ask, im obviously familiar with your incredible work as education reporter and. I know a lot of education reporters have these sort of crystallizing moments in reporting where were in classroom or with a family and we have an aha moment. Im curious, know if you had one of those moments that led you to start writing this book. Its a good i think i think you know i started thinking about the School Choice movement when i was reporting about segregation in florida and as part of that reporting, we interviewed our team interviewed just dozens of families that were essentially trying to escape the segregated sort
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