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Duty Free Lunch is the official podcast of the Pennsylvania State Education Association. Join us as we unpack the issues that matter most to Pennsylvania educators and especially PSEA members.
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PSEA Region Advocacy Coordinators sound the alarm on Project 2025 (opens the original)
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Aaron and Jeff sit down with three Region Advocacy Coordinators from across eastern Pennsylvania to talk about grassroots efforts educating members and communities on Project 2025. From press conferences to paycheck emails to Labor Day outreach, hear how PSEA members are turning worry into action — and drawing on hard lessons from past education cuts to fuel the push back.
Behind the curtain of PSEA's Summer Leadership Conference (opens the original)
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Every summer, PSEA members gather in Gettysburg for a week of learning and connection. But it takes months of planning and a dedicated team in red shirts to make it happen. Amy Pascale and Shannon Boyd of PSEA's Leadership Development Committee join Duty Free Lunch to share what goes on behind the scenes, from year-round planning to being the on-the-ground resource members count on all week long.
Project 2025: The $3 billion funding threat to PA schools (opens the original)
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Season 4 of “Duty Free Lunch” kicks off with Aaron and Jeff tackling one of the biggest issues of the new school year: Project 2025. They’re joined by two local association presidents, Bill Quinn (Easton Area EA) and Will James (Eastern York EA), fresh off community press conferences warning about a potential $3 billion federal education funding cut over the next decade. Having both faced mass furloughs, larger class sizes, and lost programs during the 2011 Corbett cuts, these two seasoned educa
Witness Stones Project unearths Lancaster City's complicated history (opens the original)
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JP McCaskey High School teacher Todd Mealy joins Aaron and Jeff to discuss the Witness Stones Project, a three-year program where students dig through 18th century tax records, wills, and runaway ads to uncover the names of people who were enslaved and erased from history. They turn their research into biographical projects and lay granite memorial stones throughout Lancaster City meant to disrupt and challenge.
Reel life lessons with afterschool fly fishing club (opens the original)
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Sixth-grade teacher Tim Cammisa turned a lifelong passion into a school tradition, leading the Fly Fishing Club at Haine Middle School in the Seneca Valley School District for nearly a decade. Aaron, Jeff, and Rachael sit down with Tim to talk about the persistence and confidence students build on the water and how conservation and ecosystem lessons cast a wider net than the sport itself.
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