About this episode

The episode discusses budget issues in public schools, the impact of COVID-19 on student enrollment, and features interviews with Terry St Cyr and Jimmy Patronis about local events and hurricane preparedness.

Good morning! The 5am hour brings us: depopulating public schools? Assistant Superindent of schools, Terry St Cyr, talks about this re thier budget meeting on Thursday, people are leaving the school district. after covid - 4600 student decline . Small decline since 2010 but heavy decline since 2020. People that are in school and stay in school - educational freedom in the state and kids and parents are benefitting from it. Andrew talks budget deficits in the school system. Terry St Cyr says 2026 was a disaster budget wise. Tropical Depression 2 became Tropical Storm Bertha last night. Car theft on the beach after the Blues - suspect caught. Replay from yesterday - US Representative Jimmy Patronis joins the show He talks about: Daylight Savings Time - do we opt out? Arizona opted out. Blue Angels Air Show - we flew 5 jets instead of 6. Rep Patronis was in town to watch the Blues fly. Claim that it was over 250,000 people on the beach for Saturday's air show - a different type of enthusiasm turned out. We received millions of dollars woth of free publicity with media after the low pass. Rep Patronis was our CFO for awhile. He talks about storms on the Gulf Coast. He says: We are in…

People in this episode

Host: Andrew McKay

Guests: Terry St Cyr, Jimmy Patronis

Topics covered

• education
• budget deficits
• hurricane preparedness
• car theft
• air show
• public schools
• tropical storms

Keywords

• public schools
• budget meeting
• student decline
• Tropical Storm Bertha
• Blue Angels Air Show
• hurricane season
• car theft
• educational freedom

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arizona, Blue Angels, Citizens

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