Full Show for November 17, 2015

Dolores McCracken, Vice President with the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) joins Rick to discuss the importance of Education Week and to examine the latest budget developments.

Pennsylvania State Senator Art Haywood joins Rick to talk about the budget talks and highlights the need to raise the minimum wage for working families at a time when legislators are talking about raising the state’s sales tax.  

Ian Millhiser, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Editor of ThinkProgress Justice joins Rick to discuss whether recent statements by a number of Governors across the nation refusing to accept any Syrian refugees is this something they can do? Who has the power and what should we be doing during this crisis.

Dr. Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, educational researcher, and education activist joins Rick for American Education Week to talk about why libraries are important for all children to get a quality education and what’s really behind the education “reform” movement.