TBD with Stephanie Vanos and Eddie Geller
TBD with Stephanie Vanos and Eddie Geller
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School Board Member Stephanie Vanos and Eddie Geller break down the news of the week and give an inside perspective from their world in Orange County Florida.
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Explores education policy, political analysis, and local governance with specific episodes discussing the challenges of book bans in schools, funding issues faced by Florida educators, and the implications of political trends in the region.
School Board Member Stephanie Vanos and Eddie Geller break down the news of the week and give an inside perspective from their world in Orange County Florida. Extracurricular regularly features interviews that focus on education, politics, and the arts. With there be humor and comedy? Sometimes!
Steph and Eddie return to discuss Steph’s education-related travels. But first Steph delves into news of layoffs at OCPS and the unfortunate reality behind them. (3:42). Then book banning is back, and we walk through the latest letter from the FL Board of Education trying to upend the rules, yet again, to get their desired outcome: more books off school shelves (12:55). However, Eddie and Steph have praise for the state board when it comes to another issue: Artificial Intelligence in schools (23:58). Then Steph talks about her trip to meet with the Greater Florida Consortium of School Boards down in Miami and how they’re setting school board legislative priorities (28:07). Finally, Steph walks through her first lobbying trip to Washington D.C. as a school board member and how the Florida School Board Association made some positive progress at the Department of Education (yes, that one) (35:00).
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