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.
Key Topics Covered
- 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
Timestamped Topic Breakdown
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
Links Mentioned
- trammellforgeorgia.com
- youthingovernment.org
- jennybethshow.com
- teapartypatriots.org