Meet the school counselor bringing free college classes to her high school students

The U.S. and UK with the support of many allies struck Houthi rebels late Thursday night in retaliation. Yemen scholar Stacey Philbrick Yadav joins us to talk about this major escalation in the Middle East. And, as his civil trial plays out, former President Donald Trump spoke out of turn in court during the closing to verbally attack both the judge presiding over the case and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Jonah Bromwich, a New York Times reporter covering the trial, joins us. And, a high school counselor in rural Alabama with little resources is getting creative to help her working-class students get a taste of college. National School Counselor of the Year Diana Virgil joins us to talk about her efforts. Then, only about 2% of teachers in Arizona are Indigenous. But a program at the University of Arizona seeks to get more Native teachers in classrooms. Noor Haghighi, who has been writing about this in the publication Arizona Luminaria, and Valerie Shirley, co-director of the Indigenous Teacher Education Program at the University of Arizona, join us.

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