{"podcast":{"title":"Stand Up! with Pete Dominick","slug":"stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595","podcast_index_feed_id":970595,"rss_url":"https://standupwithpete.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://standupwithpete.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/7/b/a/f/7baf2dc378aaacf8d959afa2a1bf1c87/libsyn-show-artwork.png","author":"Pete Dominick","episode_count":100,"summary":"Stand Up with Pete Dominick is a classroom where we laugh and learn together. I will interview the smartest people I can find about how to save the planet, our democracy and ourselves. We will talk about the issues that matter to you,your health,the health of your family, community, country and the environment w experts who know the best. And we will laugh while we do it. New episodes upload every weekday usually by 7am ET Support the show with a paid subscription at patreon.com/petedominick","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T22:20:22.826907+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595"},"episode":{"title":"1595 Andrew Spar on Florida Education Attacks + News & Clips","slug":"1595-andrew-spar-on-florida-education-attacks-news-clips","published_at":"2026-05-13T10:19:21+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595/1595-andrew-spar-on-florida-education-attacks-news-clips","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595","url":"https://standupwithpete.libsyn.com/1595-andrew-spar-on-florida-education-attacks-news-clips","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/standupwithpete/Spar_final.mp3?dest-id=1647197","summary":"My Conversation with Andrew begins at 27 mins Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soulsv Andrew Spar is president of the Florida Education Association, the state's largest association of professional employees. Spar was born and raised in the suburbs of New York City, attending public schools. A violinist since age 6, he earned his bachelor's degree in music education from Ohio State University, graduating in 1994. That same year, he went to Daytona Beach to teach at Turie T. Small Elementary School, where more than 90 percent of the students lived in poverty. The music teacher soon found his voice as an advocate and has worked ever since on behalf of public school students, schools, teachers and education staff professionals. \"I could not read when I was in first grade,\" Spar recalls. \"I struggled in school. But the educators in my life were empowered to make my success a priority, and that's just what they did. I want the same world for my family and for all of Florida's children.\" At Turie T. Small, Spar served as school-improvement chair for two years and as a union steward for seven years. He would go on to become president of his local union in May 2003 and led Volusia United Educators until he was elected FEA vice president in 2018. In September 2020, he was named FEA president after the previous president, Fedrick C. Ingram, was elected secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers. Dur…","meta_description":"My Conversation with Andrew begins at 27 mins Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3476,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595/episodes/1595-andrew-spar-on-florida-education-attacks-news-clips/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595/1595-andrew-spar-on-florida-education-attacks-news-clips.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}