Marcus Flowers and Ryan Shead sit down with Dr. Terry Leyba Ruiz for a wide-ranging, deeply personal conversation about the state of public education in Arizona and what real leadership in the classroom looks like. Dr. Ruiz draws on her decades as an educator to unpack underfunding, teacher burnout, school safety, workforce pipelines, and why career politicians have failed students and families. It’s a thoughtful, urgent discussion about preparing kids for a rapidly changing world—and why experience, not ideology, matters when it comes to education.
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