On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Mike and David to discuss a new coalition called No More Lines that seeks to end residency requirements for public schools. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reports on a new study examining whether ESSER funding influenced spending on school personnel.

Recommended content: 

• “Coalition Challenges Residency Requirements for Public Schools” —Jo Napolitano, The 74
• “America’s private public schools” —Michael Petrilli and Janie Scull, Fordham Institute
• Dan Goldhaber, Grace Falken, and Roddy Theobald, “ESSER funding and school system jobs: Evidence from job posting data,” CALDER (April 2024). 

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