https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/insured-to-fail-edu--7137411enEducationCopyright Eder Sanchez Hernandezhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/4de735a268bc4ccec8f1e14611068c9d.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/insured-to-fail-edu--7137411Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:26:27 +0000Eder Sanchez HernandezEder Sanchez Hernandezfeeds@spreaker.comJoin us as we uncover the hidden financial and political machinery driving American education, and the cost it exacts on families, educators, and students. We follow the money and the incentives that shape decisions. We expose how taxpayer dollars...falsedb043de9-006c-5eb3-b2ff-5afe8e4f3498episodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nda-she-wouldn-t-sign--747689505912ebf4-1066-47a4-a2f1-a037a5a06c21Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:52:33 +0000Eder Sanchez HernandezShe turned down $20,000 and an NDA.Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco joins Insured to Fail EDU for "The NDA She Wouldn't Sign." Kim's a Virginia criminologist and human trafficking expert who became a fierce special education advocate after her own...4635false17fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/teacher-breaks-rank--7357434151b66a7b-1e2a-4454-90f2-001336d01f11Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:22:31 +0000Eder Sanchez HernandezWhat happens when a teacher finally tells a parent what is really happening inside the school building? Listen to audio of a teacher risking her livelihood to warn a parent about serious failures affecting her child. This episode launches The PWCS...2879false16fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-educators-build-what-students-need--72732986 ⁠⁠The Academy NJ⁠⁠ school in Holmdel, New Jersey, and the founder of ⁠⁠Anchor Literacy & Learning⁠⁠ where she leads literacy-focused evaluations and instruction.This episode shifts the conversation from what’s broken to what’s possible. Through the lens of an educator who stepped outside the system after 25 years, we explore the mindset shift required to truly support students who learn differently - moving away from sameness, grades, and “catching up,” toward progress, safety, and confidence. At the center is a hard truth: we’re just not structuring or able to access environments to match how they learn. This is where partnership becomes critical. Districts cannot do this alone at scale, and families should not be forced to carry the burden. Real access will require intentional collaboration between public systems and specialized programs that are already demonstrating what works. This is a conversation about redefining expectations, rebuilding confidence, and creating pathways to access education.⁠Find our Public Group on Facebook.]]>9f264926-3bd7-4fc5-a3d6-0bc65cf0ef73Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:07:34 +0000Eder Sanchez HernandezWelcome Ann Gradman! Ann is the Founding Executive Director ofhttps://theacademynj.org/ school in Holmdel, New Jersey, and the founder ofhttps://www.anchorliteracy.com/ where she leads literacy-focused evaluations and instruction.This episode shifts... ⁠⁠The Academy NJ⁠⁠ school in Holmdel, New Jersey, and the founder of ⁠⁠Anchor Literacy & Learning⁠⁠ where she leads literacy-focused evaluations and instruction.This episode shifts the conversation from what’s broken to what’s possible. Through the lens of an educator who stepped outside the system after 25 years, we explore the mindset shift required to truly support students who learn differently - moving away from sameness, grades, and “catching up,” toward progress, safety, and confidence. At the center is a hard truth: we’re just not structuring or able to access environments to match how they learn. This is where partnership becomes critical. Districts cannot do this alone at scale, and families should not be forced to carry the burden. Real access will require intentional collaboration between public systems and specialized programs that are already demonstrating what works. This is a conversation about redefining expectations, rebuilding confidence, and creating pathways to access education.⁠Find our Public Group on Facebook.]]>3632false15fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/parent-o-b-o-student-v-the-system--72732987with Stacey KleinWhat looks like a dispute between one family and one district quickly reveals something much bigger: a coordinated infrastructure of legal defense, professional associations, insurance-backed litigation, controlled public narratives, and taxpayer-funded systems built to protect institutions.Joined by Minnesota fellow overqualified mom, Stacey Klein, we trace how districts do not simply respond to parent advocacy - they utilize our tax dollars - to prepare to defend against it. Long before a due process filing, preemptive defense machinery is already underway behind the scenes. Once a claim is filed, families find themselves up against a fully staffed, fully funded, and deeply interconnected system designed to outlast usStacey also walks us through how families can begin tracing the legal landscape themselves, including how she located her own Eighth Circuit Court case, and what it reveals about the broader structure surrounding education litigation. We also touch on the often-overlooked influence of Errors & Omissions insurance and how insurance-driven incentives can shape litigation posture long before a family ever steps into a hearing room.This conversation goes beyond one case. It exposes how professional associations, legal networks, and institutional incentives can work together to defend practices that fail students while presenting a very different story to the public.And for listeners wondering whether their own state has any regulatory body actually tasked - and funded - to address systemic barriers in education access, this is an episode to listen to, and share.This episode is about the hidden machinery shaping access to education in America, and what it will take to challenge it.]]>4305a899-90a4-4ce9-a33c-b8e951c987a7Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:07:44 +0000Eder Sanchez HernandezEpisode 4: Parent o/b/o Student v. The System with Stacey KleinWhat looks like a dispute between one family and one district quickly reveals something much bigger: a coordinated infrastructure of legal defense, professional associations,...with Stacey KleinWhat looks like a dispute between one family and one district quickly reveals something much bigger: a coordinated infrastructure of legal defense, professional associations, insurance-backed litigation, controlled public narratives, and taxpayer-funded systems built to protect institutions.Joined by Minnesota fellow overqualified mom, Stacey Klein, we trace how districts do not simply respond to parent advocacy - they utilize our tax dollars - to prepare to defend against it. Long before a due process filing, preemptive defense machinery is already underway behind the scenes. Once a claim is filed, families find themselves up against a fully staffed, fully funded, and deeply interconnected system designed to outlast usStacey also walks us through how families can begin tracing the legal landscape themselves, including how she located her own Eighth Circuit Court case, and what it reveals about the broader structure surrounding education litigation. We also touch on the often-overlooked influence of Errors & Omissions insurance and how insurance-driven incentives can shape litigation posture long before a family ever steps into a hearing room.This conversation goes beyond one case. It exposes how professional associations, legal networks, and institutional incentives can work together to defend practices that fail students while presenting a very different story to the public.And for listeners wondering whether their own state has any regulatory body actually tasked - and funded - to address systemic barriers in education access, this is an episode to listen to, and share.This episode is about the hidden machinery shaping access to education in America, and what it will take to challenge it.]]>3278false14fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/state-complaints-and-the-illusion-of-oversight--72732988c62b5374-c61f-46a6-9b74-1a72836ee17aMon, 16 Feb 2026 14:20:00 +0000Eder Sanchez HernandezWelcome, Maren Peterson!In this episode, Maren examines how state complaint systems absorb noncompliance without correcting it. Through her detailed case out of Oregon, we trace how years-long investigations, shifting standards, suppressed findings,...3256false13fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/due-process-is-the-last-resort--72732989The objective is to enter the courtroom with a case that stands on its own.]]>015766bb-eb3e-4d52-8667-1e9eb81f92e1Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:20:29 +0000Eder Sanchez HernandezInsured to Fail EDU, hosts Kai Collins and Shannon Peterson examine why access to education through due process is, in practice, limited to families who can withstand prolonged legal conflict.Districts are institutionally funded and insured to endure...The objective is to enter the courtroom with a case that stands on its own.]]>2482false12fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hidden-machinery-behind-american-education--727329901d344486-852c-4bce-bccb-15234bcd5c8fFri, 09 Jan 2026 15:23:25 +0000Eder Sanchez HernandezEvery day, families trust that when they raise concerns, schools respond in the best interest of children. But what if the real decisions shaping those responses aren’t being made in the classrooms?In this opening episode of Insured to Fail EDU, hosts...984false11full