cOrE vAlUeS (w/ MacKenna Alvarez)

Happy #TeachersDay! To celebrate National Teacher Appreciation Week, we are putting this special bonus episode on the main feed: Another Alvarez joins the Working People universe! Max and his sister, MacKenna, a middle-school teacher in NYC, talk about the politics of charter schools and the disconnect between their touted CORE VALUES and how they treat their workers and students.    Additional links/info below... Frank Adamson, Björn Åstrand, and Linda Darling-Hammond (eds), Stanford University Press, Global Education Reform: How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes    Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" Bandana Splits, "Back to School"