What Are the Roots of Charter Schools?

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The roots of charters lie deeper in the new democrats quest to re invent the public sector and promote technology based education as a root toward economic growth. Charter schools do so many things at once for the new Democrats, writes Julian Zelizer. "They're almost like the sort of quintessential example of that," says Zelizer.

Dan's second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. This interview is on Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, which details the long history of Clintonism and the Democrats’ neoliberal turn. Read the latest newsletter. It's on what Ruthie meant when she said abolition was another word for communism: thedigradio.com/newsletter31 Listen to Geismer's first Dig interview: thedigradio.com/podcast/race-and-class-in-the-liberal-suburbs-with-lily-geismer Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig