Happy #TeachersDay! To celebrate National Teacher Appreciation Week, we are putting this special bonus episode on the main feed: Another Alvarez joins the Working People universe! Max and his sister, MacKenna, a middle-school teacher in NYC, talk about the politics of charter schools and the disconnect between their touted CORE VALUES and how they treat their workers and students.    Additional links/info below... <ul> <li>Frank Adamson, Björn Åstrand, and Linda Darling-Hammond (eds), Stanford University Press, <a href= "https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/GlobalEdReform" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener">Global Education Reform: How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes</a> </li> </ul>   Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener">freemusicarchive.org</a>) <ul> <li>Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"</li> <li>Bandana Splits, "Back to School"</li> </ul>

The Break Room: Aminah Sheikh (Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario)

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Working People is a podcast about working-class lives in 21st-century America. In every episode, you'll hear interviews with workers from around the country, from all walks of life. We'll talk about their life stories, their jobs, politics, and families, their joys and hopes and frustrations. Overall, Working People aims to share and celebrate the diverse stories of working-class people, to remind ourselves that our stories matter, and to build a sense of shared struggle and solidarity between workers around the country.