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Choice Words is the official podcast of Freedom to Choose Schools. Hosted by executive director Jay Artis-Wright, each episode elevates the voices of the radical middle nonpartisan thinkers, educators, and families who believe in putting parents first.
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The School Where Kindergartners Run Their Own Businesses | Dr. Wayne Jones (opens the original)
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Can a kindergartner learn to run a business? At Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh, the answer is yes. In this episode of Choice Words, host Jay sits down with Dr. Wayne Jones, CEO of Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship, the only entrepreneurship-focused public charter school in Pennsylvania. Dr. Jones shares how a small group of parents turned a need for better public school options into a K–8 school of over 560 students, where kids don't just learn about busi
Activated Parents, Engaged Detroit: Bernita Bradley's Choice Words (opens the original)
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What happens when a school loses your child, even for 15 minutes? For Bernita Bradley, it was the beginning of a decade-long journey from involved parent to full-time advocate, community organizer, and now school founder. In this episode, host Jay sits down with Bernita, a McLeod Society Fellow, founder of Engage Detroit, and longtime Detroit-based education advocate to talk about what she calls "activated parenting": the shift from showing up to actually understanding and shaping what happens i
From Katrina to BAEO: Kenneth Campbell on Building Black Leadership in School Choice (opens the original)
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Jay sits down in New Orleans with Kenneth Campbell — education leader, FCS board member, and a founding force behind the DC and Louisiana charter school movements — for a wide-ranging conversation on the roots and future of school choice. Ken shares how he helped rebuild schools in post-Katrina New Orleans, co-founded the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), and spent decades fighting for parents' right to choose. They dig into why school choice sparks backlash ("it's always about mone
Turning the Tassel: Agency’s New Study Uncovers What Happens After Graduation (opens the original)
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What actually happens to kids after they graduate? Not their GPA, not their test scores — do they get the credential, land the job, earn the living, build the life? This week, host Jay sits down in New Orleans with Debbie Veney, founder and CEO of Agency, to dig into Turning the Tassel — a 5,000-person study, conducted with the Harris Poll, tracking a full decade of high school graduates (and, as it turns out, the entire first graduating generation of Gen Z). The findings are hard to argue with:
The Real New Orleans Story: School Choice Before It Had a Name (opens the original)
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Long before "school choice" became a national buzzword, Black families in New Orleans were already choosing. Through navigating segregation, Jim Crow, and a broken system to find the best path for their kids. On this episode of Choice Words, host Jay sits down in New Orleans with Patrick Dobard the former superintendent of the Recovery School District and a New Orleans native whose own family history stretches back to the earliest days of the city's education reform movement. Patrick shares the
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