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MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA
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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…


Curious Mike’s Visit to Rain Lily Microschool
In this episode of Microschooling Journeys, Curious Mike visits Rain Lily Microschool in Nassau County, Florida. He visits: Wow. Then he hears the two founders origin story. Kati is a veteran Montessori teacher frustrated with culture and teacher respect issues in her former school, dreaming of a place where all parents felt welcome. Tania trains in Cuba, and then with her husband makes the fraught journey to USA, and ends up working her way up the ladder. Like many, they have a dream of “their own” little school - but how?
Enter Wildflower Network. It’s a network for teacher-led microschools, and they help people just like Kati and Tania: with septic tanks, with website creation, with touchy legal issues, with building a sliding scale tuition model that can tap Florida’s public dollars. This episode is a little different stylistically: it’s Mike’s monologue. Tune in next time for an interview with Matt Kramer, CEO of Wildflower’s 70+ campuses, about expanding these innovative schools nationwide.

Becket Fund’s Eric Rassbach on Loffman v. CA DOE, Religious Liberty, & Schooling
This week on The Learning Curve, co-hosts Alisha Searcy of DFER and U-Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng interview Eric Rassbach, Vice President and Senior Counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Mr. Rassbach discusses the Loffman v. California Department of Education case, where Becket successfully secured a unanimous Ninth Circuit decision ensuring equal access to special education funding for religious school students.