# 182. From Classroom to Congress with Will Staton

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Podcast: [Educator Forever](https://stenobird.com/podcast/educator-forever-5757634)
Published: 2026-04-22T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.educatorforever.com/
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## Resource

Will Staton began his career as a high school history teacher, and has worked as a teacher, Dean and administrator in Memphis, New York City and Washington, DC. Most recently, Will worked as an independent nonprofit consultant. Now he is now running for Congress as an independent in central New York, where he lives in Syracuse with his wife and two daughters. In our talk, Will and I discuss his journey from education to politics, and how he wants to improve the public school system. If you care about our education system, you’ll want to tune in. For all links and resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.educatorforever.com/episode182 .

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