Guest: Ryan N. Boyer, Business Manager of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Consortium, a consortium of more than 50 labor unions and 40,000 workers.
Topics: How and why this major labor leader could be such a strong supporter of school choice. "I'd be a hypocrite to oppose school choice - because I've exercised it myself."
00:43 Ryan Boyer and Philadelphia Labor
02:28 The Fierce Urgency of Education
04:19 Why Incremental Gains Are Not Enough
06:29 A Family Sacrifice for School Choice
08:32 Philadelphia's Unequal School Landscape
10:33 The Schools the System Prioritizes
12:32 Separating Facilities from Education
14:31 Merit Pay and Hard-to-Staff Schools
16:29 Education and Upward Mobility
18:26 School Quality and Property Values
20:41 Charter Schools as Laboratories
22:41 Pennsylvania's School-Choice Politics