Progressive candidates make a clean sweep of West Contra Costa school board elections.    How did they do it?  What does it mean?  Two exceptional local leaders, Francisco Ortiz and Consuela Lara, share their secrets.

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Hear education scholar, Frank Adamson, on why billionaires put hundreds of thousands of dollars into school board elections.  What are they looking to gain?

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What could a Black-owned NFL team and Coliseum development mean for the Black community.  What does it mean for social justice? African-American employment?   Youth sports? Equitable development?     Hear from Oakland leader, Ray Bobbitt, who is leading this huge exciting project.

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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Even weeks.

The show on October 2 was pre-empted by fund-drive.

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Community Land Trusts:  Could they really stop gentrification and displacement, so that our children can thrive at home and at school.  Hear former Berkeley Mayor, Gus Newport and scholar,. Shannon Van Zeldt discuss the issue.

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Hear the dynamic new President of the West Contra Costa teachers union on the ways that County health is failing communities where essential workers and low-income people live, and thereby actually preventing the reopening of schools!  And hear initiatives of the newly envigorated teachers movement.

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