The Committee

A philosopher of education who backed into school finance when his own leafy Milwaukee suburb started closing elementary schools. Now he reads the budgets, audits, and bond documents so you don’t have to — and yes, that’s the golden podcast voice. Author of A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability (Routledge).

A philosopher and school-finance obsessive who studies the money from a socialist, movement perspective. He started explaining district budgets on TikTok, fielded 500-odd requests to “look at our schools,” and turned them into this show. Author of As Public As Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press).