Going Live on KUOW's Youtube Channel at 4 p.m.

Education is top of mind both locally and nationally as schools begin to reopen. It is also a major priority for President Biden in his first 100 days in office. The President has signed a wave of executive orders indicating a much stronger federal role in ensuring schools can reopen safely. Yet several pressing questions remain: When will teachers be vaccinated? What do Covid safe reopening plans look like? What are the ongoing challenges for remote learning?

NPR's Anya Kamenetz and KUOW’s Angela King will explore these questions and more as they take a deep dive into the local and national challenges facing education and the White House.

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ABOUT THE GUESTS

Anya Kamenetz is an education correspondent at NPR. She joined NPR in 2014, working as part of a new initiative to coordinate on-air and online coverage of learning. Since then the NPR Ed team has won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Innovation, and a 2015 National Award for Education Reporting for the multimedia national collaboration, the Grad Rates project. Kamenetz is the author of several books. Her latest is The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (PublicAffairs, 2018). Her previous books touched on student loans, innovations to address cost, quality, and access in higher education, and issues of assessment and excellence: Generation Debt; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, and The Test. Kamenetz covered technology, innovation, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship for five years as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She's contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and Slate, and appeared in documentaries shown on PBS and CNN.

Angela King is KUOW's Morning Edition host. Angela is an Emmy-award winning journalist who’s been a part of the northwest news scene since the early 1990s. A proud University of Washington alumna, with degrees in Broadcast Journalism and American Ethnic Studies, she started her career as a news writer in Seattle, before becoming a reporter and anchor in Seattle, Portland and Albuquerque. Angela's work has been honored by such groups as the Society of Professional Journalists, and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In 2009, U.W.'s ViewpointMagazine also named her as one of the “Top 40 to Watch.” In addition to her work as a journalist, Angela is an independent documentary producer and has contributed her talents to a variety of local organizations.