The Rick Smith Show Full Three Hours Show for 10-24-2016

Ken Mash, President of APSCUF joins Rick to talk about the strike that shutdown the 14 state owned universities and colleges and discuss how it truly was an unnecessary strike forced by PASSHE and Chancellor Brogan.   

Susan Lerner, the Executive Director of Common Cause New York joins Rick to discuss the proposed $85 billion merger with AT&T and Time Warner and what consumers, taxpayers, and citizens can expect from another mega-merger and what can be done to push back against its passage.

Kevin Mahoney, Editor Zero at the Raging Chicken Press joins Rick to talk about the recent victory by his APSCUF union and explain how he witness the direct action organizing on his campus engage and empower his fellow faculty members and how this is the model for changing the nation. 

Nicholas Tampio, professor of political science at Fordham University in New York joins Rick to discuss his recently published essay on national education standards in the peer-reviewed “Journal of Politics,” where he argues that national standards like Common Core are unnecessary and hurt teacher autonomy.