Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 26Aug22

How Ranked Choice Voting in Alaska is Going and Education Issues W/ Sarah Montalbano & Cooper Conway

Your Heard Tell for Friday, August the 26th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by having not one but two Good Talks today. First Sarah Montalbano of the Alaska Policy Forum joins us to talk about the implementation of ranked choice voting in Alaska. Sarah explains the good, the bad, and the very confusing of what has been a messy roll out, complicated by the death of long time Alaska Representative Don Young (R), a huge field, and sudden change to the new system. Plus Sarah talks about the attempted comeback of Sarah Palin, the enigma of Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and the surprising results for non-partisan candidates in the new system.

Then, Cooper Conway returns to Heard Tell to talk through some of the headlines, narratives, and debates surrounding education such as religious private schools, school choice, and education funding. Cooper and host Andrew Donaldson talk about how COVID school lockdowns forever changed the perseption of parents and student to the school system, how teachers are…