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Rahm Emanuel: Both parties are failing American students
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:18:28
Publish Date: 2026-04-07 20:02:00
Description:

Culture wars have distracted America's K-12 system at the expense of students, says former U.S. Ambassador and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. On this episode of The Current, Emanuel sits down with Jon Valant, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, to diagnose what went wrong and how some schools are trying to get it right.

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