How Iowa's new school choice program is activating entrepreneurs: Jenson "Fig" Newton on launching Empigo Academy

from LiberatED Podcast · host Kerry McDonald

Jenson "Fig" Newton is the founder of Empigo Academy, a faith-based high school focused on career technical education (CTE) that is opening this fall in Des Moines, Iowa. He expects to launch with 50 students, all of whom will attend tuition-free thanks to Iowa's new universal school choice program. *** Sign up for Kerry's free, weekly email newsletter on education trends at fee.org/liberated.

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