Show notes for today’s episode, 2/23/16

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Good afternoon, Scoochers!

Here are the links for today’s show.

We talk with Marcela Gaviria, producer for tonight’s new Frontline documentary “Chasing Heroin.”

We also talk about the latest controversy around Success Academy– the Office of Civil Rights is investigating them for disability discrimination: ‘Got to Go’: high-performing charter schools shed students quickly

And we talk about the escalating crisis in northern Syria. America Is In A Proxy War With Itself In Syria

And the outro music is “Social Jedi” by Tetherball.

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