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Hey, welcome back to the Lawrence Larson Show.
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It's a pleasure to be with you.
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This segment of the show brought to you by Lean.
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One state allows parents to control education money, zero dollars lost to fraud, and the kids, as a result, beat 60 percent of the rest of the country.
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I thought we'd talk about that with Tommy Schultz, who's CEO of the American Federation for Children.
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Tommy, welcome to the program.
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Thanks for having me.
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Excited to talk about this amazing report.
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Is there any way to get most of America to understand that the government does not use your money well when it comes to education of children and that parents would make much, much better decisions?
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Well, I think the majority of the country gets it.
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It's the reason why 32 states have some form of a private school choice program on the books, in law, and clearly, as we are seeing in Arkansas, it's working for families.
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Just in the third year of this program, I mean, now nearly 50,000 students are using this up from 5,000 in the first year.
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You cited the test score results that are just amazing.
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And it actually, one under-written and under-discussed element of this, but we've seen this in other states already too, in Florida, Ohio, Indiana, places that have had robust school choice programs for decades.
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What we're now seeing also in Arkansas is when you actually have robust school choice programs where families control their child education funding, the public schools also get better.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor there, has actually talked about how when they implemented all these education reforms alongside school choice, the public schools get better.
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The competition works.
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It's just a basic, you know, economic concept that everybody gets naturally, right?
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But the public school monopoly, they don't get it.
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But now more than half the country are they understand that school choice works.
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This isn't some pilot program.
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They are working at scale, and a new federal law is coming online next year that could potentially make all families all across the country in every state eligible for school choice scholarships.
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Well, it it makes common sense.
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I mean, a lot of times when I was a kid, my mom and dad lived in a lot of really tiny towns.
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I mean, four and five hundred-person towns.
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And I remember one of them had one little grocery store.
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And it was it was not much to write home about.
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When the second store came to this little town, all of a sudden the first store had to up their game because if they didn't, everybody was going to go to the new one and not go to the old one.
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So everybody understands that concept.
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The competition drives excellence and usually drives the price down as well.
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So what do we need to do to break the stranglehold that labor unions have through the teachers' unions?
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Well, that's a big uh part of this whole uh problem that you articulate is that you have this cash machine, the teachers' unions, the two national ones alone, and all of their affiliates in all the 50 states, they basically bring in about$4 billion worth of revenue that they then deploy into political activism all across the country.
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So that's often been the blockade, but really the dam is broken.
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Again, so many states have been implementing these massive school choice programs at scale.
00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:41.840
They're seeing that it's more cost effective, so it's cheaper to send kids into a uh school choice program where you're maybe only accessing probably two-thirds or even half of the total funding that a public school district student would get.
00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.039
And the results are both great for the kids using the program, but also the public schools are getting better.
00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:53.360
And now President Trump has signed into law as of last year, the July 4th bill, the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.
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Basically, in 2027, January 1, what comes online for potentially all 50 states, if the governors opt in to it, all 50 states could be eligible for school choice, where basically every single American can donate$1,700 and get a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for that donation to a scholarship organization.
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And those scholarship organizations can give out funding to basically 90% of American kids.
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So really, the dam has broken.
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Next year is going to be an absolute revolution when it comes to our kids' education.
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And Arkansas and all these other great states are clearly showing the path that this works, this is sustainable, this is scalable.
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I'm talking to Tommy Schultz, who's CEO of the American Federation for Children.
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Do you know you mentioned that uh that program for donating to scholarship organizations?
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It's amazing to me that there are, what, almost a couple of dozen states where the government has chosen not to make their kids and their families eligible for that.
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Is there any good way to shame them into doing it?
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Because the fact that, you know, this is this is something parents can put the money into the scholarship organizations.
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The money goes to the kids, and you've got governors saying, I will not do it because it's connected to Donald Trump?
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Oh, it's preposterous.
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But thankfully, again, the dam is starting to break even on that front.
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So Democratic governors Jared Polis and Kathy Hokel, Colorado and New York, respectively, they've said that they're going to opt into this.
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And they get it why?
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Because the politics would actually be in their favor to do this, because donors in their state, every donor is eligible in the country to basically make this contribution.
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But if your governor like Gavin Newsom or something in California says, I'm not going to opt in, the donors can still donate.
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They just have to send their money to an out-of-state scholarship organization.
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So what you're really doing is just harming the kids in your state.
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It means the money will flow out of your state.
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California could basically have$10 billion raised in that state alone, but that money would all have to go to places like Texas or potentially New York.
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So really, at the end of the day, every donor needs to start advocating and telling their governor, you need to opt in.
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You need to let our kids and our state benefit from this new, basically just a tax policy.
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This isn't some appropriation from the Department of Education with a bunch of awful strings attached.
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This is black and white tax policy that says if you make a donation, you get a tax credit.
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It's free money, essentially.
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I guess, Tommy, it just amazes me that the public schools are now getting, in many cases,$18,000,$20,000 per student per year.
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And routinely, a lot of the private schools, private schools, are cheaper than that.
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And that's assuming parents or grandparents don't decide to homeschool, which is also a great option for the parents who want to take that task on.
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Anything to push that up push that forward as well?
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Well, the more we make this data apparent, you know, the more and more, too, that lawmakers in the states have looked at how the public school system during COVID got an additional$192 billion from the federal government to help with COVID learning loss and reopening.
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It was really just a massive shakedown from the teachers' unions.
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And at the end of the day, I laugh because the teachers probably don't understand just how much money that was that was deployed into public schools that a lot of people are just questioning where did that money go?
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Because$192 billion spread across all three million teachers in this country, that's a$60,000 bonus that those teachers could have gotten.
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So where is the money going?
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It's a really great premises.
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It would be great to see a full audit of that.
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That's Tommy Schultz, the CEO of the American Federation for Children.
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Tommy, thanks so very much.
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They work by lowering blood sugar and reducing your appetite.
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Hey, welcome back to the Lawrence Larson Show.
00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:11.599
It's a pleasure to be with you.
00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:13.679
This segment of the show brought to you by Lean.
00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.399
Everybody talks about those weight loss injections.
00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:18.800
I don't like the GLP ones at all.
00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:24.559
But if you want results without needles, without prescriptions, doctors created Lean, and I've used it myself.
00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:28.079
It helps curb your appetite, balance blood sugar, and burn up fat.
00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:34.880
Get 20% off plus free rush shipping when you go to takeLean.com and use promo code LARS.
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That's takeLean.com and use promo code Lars.
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One state allows parents to control education money, zero dollars lost to fraud, and the kids, as a result, beat 60 percent of the rest of the country.
00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:54.399
I thought we'd talk about that with Tommy Schultz, who's CEO of the American Federation for Children.
00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:56.159
Tommy, welcome to the program.
00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:57.600
Thanks for having me.
00:00:57.759 --> 00:00:59.359
Excited to talk about this amazing report.
00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:11.280
Is there any way to get most of America to understand that the government does not use your money well when it comes to education of children and that parents would make much, much better decisions?
00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:14.319
Well, I think the majority of the country gets it.
00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:24.079
It's the reason why 32 states have some form of a private school choice program on the books, in law, and clearly, as we are seeing in Arkansas, it's working for families.
00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:31.040
Just in the third year of this program, I mean, now nearly 50,000 students are using this up from 5,000 in the first year.
00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.920
You cited the test score results that are just amazing.
00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:45.599
And it actually, one under-written and under-discussed element of this, but we've seen this in other states already too, in Florida, Ohio, Indiana, places that have had robust school choice programs for decades.
00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:54.719
What we're now seeing also in Arkansas is when you actually have robust school choice programs where families control their child education funding, the public schools also get better.
00:01:54.879 --> 00:02:03.280
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor there, has actually talked about how when they implemented all these education reforms alongside school choice, the public schools get better.
00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:04.480
The competition works.
00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.639
It's just a basic, you know, economic concept that everybody gets naturally, right?
00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:10.719
But the public school monopoly, they don't get it.
00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:15.039
But now more than half the country are they understand that school choice works.
00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:16.560
This isn't some pilot program.
00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:26.080
They are working at scale, and a new federal law is coming online next year that could potentially make all families all across the country in every state eligible for school choice scholarships.
00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.080
Well, it it makes common sense.
00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.960
I mean, a lot of times when I was a kid, my mom and dad lived in a lot of really tiny towns.
00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:35.280
I mean, four and five hundred-person towns.
00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.319
And I remember one of them had one little grocery store.
00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.719
And it was it was not much to write home about.
00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:49.919
When the second store came to this little town, all of a sudden the first store had to up their game because if they didn't, everybody was going to go to the new one and not go to the old one.
00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:52.159
So everybody understands that concept.
00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:56.560
The competition drives excellence and usually drives the price down as well.
00:02:56.719 --> 00:03:02.240
So what do we need to do to break the stranglehold that labor unions have through the teachers' unions?
00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:21.120
Well, that's a big uh part of this whole uh problem that you articulate is that you have this cash machine, the teachers' unions, the two national ones alone, and all of their affiliates in all the 50 states, they basically bring in about$4 billion worth of revenue that they then deploy into political activism all across the country.
00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.240
So that's often been the blockade, but really the dam is broken.
00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:28.800
Again, so many states have been implementing these massive school choice programs at scale.
00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:41.840
They're seeing that it's more cost effective, so it's cheaper to send kids into a uh school choice program where you're maybe only accessing probably two-thirds or even half of the total funding that a public school district student would get.
00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.039
And the results are both great for the kids using the program, but also the public schools are getting better.
00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:53.360
And now President Trump has signed into law as of last year, the July 4th bill, the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.
00:03:53.599 --> 00:04:12.240
Basically, in 2027, January 1, what comes online for potentially all 50 states, if the governors opt in to it, all 50 states could be eligible for school choice, where basically every single American can donate$1,700 and get a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for that donation to a scholarship organization.
00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:16.800
And those scholarship organizations can give out funding to basically 90% of American kids.
00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:18.879
So really, the dam has broken.
00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:22.800
Next year is going to be an absolute revolution when it comes to our kids' education.
00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:29.519
And Arkansas and all these other great states are clearly showing the path that this works, this is sustainable, this is scalable.
00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.600
I'm talking to Tommy Schultz, who's CEO of the American Federation for Children.
00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:38.720
Do you know you mentioned that uh that program for donating to scholarship organizations?
00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:49.199
It's amazing to me that there are, what, almost a couple of dozen states where the government has chosen not to make their kids and their families eligible for that.
00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:52.000
Is there any good way to shame them into doing it?
00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:58.319
Because the fact that, you know, this is this is something parents can put the money into the scholarship organizations.
00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:04.959
The money goes to the kids, and you've got governors saying, I will not do it because it's connected to Donald Trump?
00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:06.959
Oh, it's preposterous.
00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.079
But thankfully, again, the dam is starting to break even on that front.
00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:16.959
So Democratic governors Jared Polis and Kathy Hokel, Colorado and New York, respectively, they've said that they're going to opt into this.
00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:18.079
And they get it why?
00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:26.160
Because the politics would actually be in their favor to do this, because donors in their state, every donor is eligible in the country to basically make this contribution.
00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:32.639
But if your governor like Gavin Newsom or something in California says, I'm not going to opt in, the donors can still donate.
00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.680
They just have to send their money to an out-of-state scholarship organization.
00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:38.879
So what you're really doing is just harming the kids in your state.
00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:40.879
It means the money will flow out of your state.
00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:48.160
California could basically have$10 billion raised in that state alone, but that money would all have to go to places like Texas or potentially New York.
00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:53.519
So really, at the end of the day, every donor needs to start advocating and telling their governor, you need to opt in.
00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:58.240
You need to let our kids and our state benefit from this new, basically just a tax policy.
00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:03.120
This isn't some appropriation from the Department of Education with a bunch of awful strings attached.
00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:07.839
This is black and white tax policy that says if you make a donation, you get a tax credit.
00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:09.360
It's free money, essentially.
00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:17.839
I guess, Tommy, it just amazes me that the public schools are now getting, in many cases,$18,000,$20,000 per student per year.
00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:22.560
And routinely, a lot of the private schools, private schools, are cheaper than that.
00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:29.759
And that's assuming parents or grandparents don't decide to homeschool, which is also a great option for the parents who want to take that task on.
00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.439
Anything to push that up push that forward as well?
00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:49.519
Well, the more we make this data apparent, you know, the more and more, too, that lawmakers in the states have looked at how the public school system during COVID got an additional$192 billion from the federal government to help with COVID learning loss and reopening.
00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:52.480
It was really just a massive shakedown from the teachers' unions.
00:06:52.639 --> 00:07:01.839
And at the end of the day, I laugh because the teachers probably don't understand just how much money that was that was deployed into public schools that a lot of people are just questioning where did that money go?
00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:08.959
Because$192 billion spread across all three million teachers in this country, that's a$60,000 bonus that those teachers could have gotten.
00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:10.480
So where is the money going?
00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:11.519
It's a really great premises.
00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:13.680
It would be great to see a full audit of that.
00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:17.199
That's Tommy Schultz, the CEO of the American Federation for Children.
00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:18.959
Tommy, thanks so very much.
00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:22.319
Everybody does talk about those weight loss injections.
00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:24.720
And I know the results are very dramatic.
00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:28.240
They work by lowering blood sugar and reducing your appetite.
00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:37.600
But what if you want to lose weight and you're not interested in painful weekly injections, especially when you hear about some of the crazy side effects of those GLP ones?
00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:41.199
That's why doctors created a weight loss supplement called lean.
00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:43.040
And the results are remarkable.
00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:51.199
The studied ingredients in lean will lower your blood sugar, burn up fat by converting it to energy, curb your appetite and your cravings.
00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:52.959
That means you're not as hungry.
00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:57.279
But lean is not for the casual dieter who only has a few pounds to lose.
00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:03.680
The doctors at Brick House Nutrition created lean for frustrated dieters, the ones with 10 or more pounds to lose.
00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:10.000
I want to get just started the way I did, with 20% off the regular price and free rush shipping.
00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:14.480
That means you can add lean to your healthy diet and exercise plan the way I did.
00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:20.079
Visit takelean.com and enter the word Lars, L-A-R-S, for your discount.
00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.199
That's promo code Lars at takelean.com.
00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:25.519
You're listening to the Lars Larson show.
00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:31.759
Check out our Instagram feed, and of course, you can always tell Alexa to play the Lars Larson show.
