PolicyWise Youth Leadership Institute

Today's Hosts: Elli Are

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What does Climate education look like in California schools these days? Bluntly, there are no climate education mandates for For K-12 or for general education at public university.
For most students environmental education doesn't become accessible until you get to college and really only if that's your chosen major.
Enter California Assembly Bill 1939, which aims to address this deficiency in our education system. First introduced in 2022, AB 1939 would add a science requirement to California K-12 schools addressing the causes and effects of Climate Change and offer methods to mitigate and adapt. As of the time of this recording the Bill was sent by the senate to the Committee on Education where it has sat since June 15th, 2022
Today, Elli is Joined by Sage Lenier, creator of the UC Berkley course Solutions for a Sustainable and Just Future, and former Instructor of the same UC Berkeley course Anu Thirunarayanan to discuss Climate literacy, what accessible and equitable environmental education should look like, and the power of peer-to-peer/youth-led education.
https://www.sustainableandjustfuture.org/history
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Today's Hosts: Mehek Kandru

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Today on Policywise, Mehek dives into what the education system looks like for incarcerated individuals.
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Today's Hosts: Demi Wack & Ellinor Arzbaecher

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Today on Policywise Demi and Elli discuss Prop AB15O5 by Democratic Assembly member Patrick O'Donell from Long Beach CA. In 2019 California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB15O5 into law and rewriting the state's charter school laws
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Today's Hosts: Demi Wack

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Whenever you're ready. Hello everyone, and welcome to our next episode of Policy-Wise. I am really thrilled today to be joined by Cindy Loff, the director of the National Childcare Association. Today, we'll be talking a little bit about the state of childcare in the United States, learning what the current status is of childcare, what are some of the efforts being made, and what are some of the problems that we might be able to tackle as young folks, uh, just starting to address some of these issues and seeing these issues all around us. Now, before we jump in too much about Cindy and learning more about her, Cindy, I was wondering if you could come on and give us a little bit of a background about the National Childcare Association, uh, what it does and how it fits into policy within the United States?
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[UPDATE: this episode was recorded on May 26 2023 before the FTA strike began. For updates on the strike follow @FresnoTeachersAsaociation]
Today we'll be hearing from McLane high school teacher and Fresno Teachers Association President Manuel Bonilla and self-proclaimed troublemaker Louis Jamerson the Executive Director of the Fresno Teachers Association.
Together these two are bringing big perspectives and power positions from the FTA.
Today's Hosts: Demi Wack, Mehek Kandru & Ellinor Arzbaecher

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It is so good to be back!  For our final season, we’ll be switching things up. As always we'll be speaking with people who are experts in their fields, policymakers, and everyday people who are making a difference in their communities, but we’ll also each be taking the opportunity to do deep dives into the areas that interest us the most.
Join our hosts Elli, Mehek and Demi as they explore the policy areas that interest them most as they continue their journey to discover what makes a Policy Wise?
Today's Hosts: Demi Wack, Mehek Kandru & Ellinor Arzbaecher

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Editor: Rachel Livinal
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