The Rick Smith Show 1-18-2016 Happy MLK Day

Morna McDermott, United Opt Out Administrator, Associate Professor of education at Towson University, in Maryland joins Rick to discuss the upcoming United Opt Out conference in Philadelphia, PA this coming February and the enormous changes High Stakes testing has brought, and will continue to bring to public education. 

Alison McDowell, Pennsylvania coordinator for United Opt Out and public school activist joins Rick to talk about the upcoming United Opt Out conference she is organizing in Philadelphia, PA and why she is so passionate about saving community based public education.