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Libertad: Conversations on Education Justice Kassandra Infante
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Libertad is a place for exploratory, interview style and opinion based conversations about education justice and politics in the United States. As a current school commitee member, kassie Infante seeks to create space for courageous and critical conversations on the meaning of education that is liberatory.
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Save our Public Schools: community wellbeing in Puerto Rico after mass closures
Since 2007, Puerto Rico has closed 44% of it’s schools in processes that do little to incorporate community input. This episode takes a closer look at a potential root cause of this movement, the privatization of education while interviewing a former resident for a narrative understanding of how closed schools are experienced by families and negatively impact communities. Works cited( includes visual references): Dalia Rubiano Yedidia, Eli Moore, Luis Gallardo Rivera, and Marina Moscoso Arabía, Puerto Rico's Public School Closures; Community Effects and Future Paths. (Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2020), https://belonging.berkeley.edu/puerto-ricos-public-school-closures