Thur., Oct. 20, 2022: "The Christian Nationalist Assault on Public Education in Tennessee" brought to you by Americans United (off-site)

No matter where we live or what we believe, we all want our children to succeed. But many students are denied opportunities because their schools and communities are underfunded and under-resourced.

Politicians deny students and schools resources and cut funding to promote voucher schemes or Charter Schools when students don’t meet their expectations. The arc of the history of corporate school reform has been tragic; the survival of public education in a meaningful and equitable manner is in doubt in Tennessee and much of the rest of the nation.

Please join our panel to find out what is happening in Public Education in Tennessee, and what we can do
about it.

Introduced by Rob Boston. Rob is Senior Adviser at Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Editor of Church & State, AU’s monthly membership magazine. He is a prolific speaker and author of four books on State/Church Separation issues and the Religious Right.

PANELISTS

Kathryn Joyce. Kathryn is an investigative journalist at Salon.com covering the right-wing, and author of two books: Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement and The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption. She was formerly a reporter with Type Investigations and her work has appeared in Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, Highline, Pacific Standard, The New York Times Magazine, The Marshall Project, and many others.

Marisa Richmond. Marisa is an Adjunct Professor at Middle Tennessee State University. Her areas of expertise are20th Century U.S. Political History, LGBTQ History, African American History and History of American Science & Technology. She is a prolific author and speaker on transgender rights and Church/State separation issues, and has served on many boards at the Local, State, and National levels. She has been recognized for her work with many awards.

Other panelists are members of the Nashville Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, including our own Gene Bryant.

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