Dr. Randell Trammell holds a doctorate in education and is the founder of the U.S. Center for Civic Engagement, a nonpartisan civic education nonprofit serving over one million Georgia students annually and now expanding into Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas, and beyond. A 23-year education veteran whose wife is a public school special education teacher and whose three children attend Georgia public schools, Dr. Trammell is the Republican candidate for Georgia School Superintendent in the May 19, 2026 election.

Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, representing three million grassroots conservative activists nationwide.

• Georgia's 70% third-grade reading failure rate
• The Mississippi Miracle and the Southern literacy surge
• Reverse-engineering the “ideal graduate”
• The 3P Model: passion, purpose, paycheck
• Civics, citizenship, and constitutional education
• Why technology is destroying classroom focus
• Discipline collapse and the broken CCRPI school climate score
• Leading-question school surveys normalizing harmful behaviors
• Opt-in vs. opt-out state policy
• Teacher retention and the “plate study”
• Full parental school choice
• The May 19 Georgia primary

00:14 — Welcome and guest introduction

01:03 — Georgia's literacy crisis: 70% can't read on grade level

02:12 — The Mississippi Miracle and the Southern surge

04:51 — What Georgia is measuring vs. what matters

06:00 — The growth model and the ideal graduate

07:04 — Citizenship as the foundation of education

08:57 — The 3P Model: passion, purpose, paycheck

09:28 — Where Georgia schools are failing parents

12:26 — First-generation college students left to navigate alone

13:29 — COVID's lasting damage on Georgia learning

15:17 — Why educators avoid teaching citizenship

17:11 — The Constitution as a “masterpiece for all times”

18:29 — Inside the U.S. Center for Civic Engagement

19:42 — Back to basics: why this must be said out loud

21:28 — Life skills schools have abandoned

23:17 — Technology in the classroom: a tool, not THE tool

26:28 — How screens destroy focus and comprehension

28:11 — Why Dr. Trammell is running for Georgia Superintendent

30:20 — “Status quo has got to go”

31:56 — What the Georgia School Superintendent actually does

34:06 — Day-one priorities and the back-to-basics platform

35:04 — Discipline: when “the inmates run the prison”

36:04 — The plate study and supporting teachers

36:48 — Full parental school choice

37:59 — School climate surveys normalizing drugs, sex, and suicide

39:35 — Why Georgia must become an opt-in state

44:19 — How the CCRPI rewards bad discipline incentives

47:45 — How Georgians and out-of-state listeners can help

49:06 — Get involved with the U.S. Center for Civic Engagement

49:53 — Closing and where to find the show

• trammellforgeorgia.com
• youthingovernment.org
• jennybethshow.com
• teapartypatriots.org