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Todd Williams, the Superintendent at Kaufman ISD, Talks About his District’s Upcoming TRE Election
Equity Center Radio |September 3, 2010 | Todd Williams, Kaufman Independent School District’s Superintendent, Discusses the District’s Upcoming Tax Ratification Election (TRE) with Wayne Pierce, the Equity Center’s Executive Director. Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Kaufman Independent School District (KISD), [...]
Equity Center’s Executive Director, Wayne Pierce, Interviews Rod Schroder, Amarillo ISD’s Superintendent on Today’s Program
Equity Center Radio |August 20, 2010 | Rod Schroder, the Superintendent at Amarillo ISD, Explains to the Equity Center’s Executive Director, Wayne Pierce, how Amarillo ISD is Treading Water in the School Finance’s Perfect Storm. Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. [...]
No Longer Docile and Willing to Meekly Take Whatever Leftovers the Legislature Doles Out, Aledo Independent School District Is Combating for Adequate and Fair School Funding
Equity Center Radio | July 23, 2010 |Two Members of the Board of Trustees of Aledo Independent School District Talk to Wayne Pierce About How Their Board is Taking the Initiative in the Fight for Fair and Adequate Education Funding Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer [...]
A LEADership Program: The Mary Hardin-Baylor Graduate Program for Working Professionals
Equity Center Radio | July 16, 2010 |Students and Administrators Explain the Unique Doctoral Program at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor to Wayne Pierce Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Wayne Pierce interviews two students from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, [...]
Monty Exter: Another Voice that Proclaims that our School Finance System is Broken and Lays the Blame at the Feet of our Lawmakers.
Equity Center Radio | July 9, 2010 | Monty Exter of the Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE) Discusses the Current State of Affairs Regarding the Broken System of Financing Education in the State of Texas. Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to [...]
Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, the Education Beat Writer for the San Antonio Express-News, Talks to Wayne Pierce about Covering the Legislature
Equity Center Radio | June 25, 2010 | Wayne Pierce, the Executive Director of the Equity Center Talks with the Education Beat Writer for the San Antonio Express-News, Jenny LaCoste-Caputo. She Gives our Listeners an Inside Look at What it is Like for a Beat Writer to Cover our Legislature. A short programing note: Equity [...]
Keith Bryant, President of the Texas Association of Mid-Size Schools (“TAMS”), Discusses the Major Finance Issues Surrounding Mid-Size School Districts with Wayne Pierce
Equity Center Radio | June 11, 2010 | Keith Bryant Advocates for the Mid-Size School Formula Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Today’s broadcast features Keith Bryant, Superintendent of Bullard ISD and President of the Texas Association of Mid-Size Schools (TAMS). [...]
Wayne Pierce & Lynn Moak: A Conversation
Equity Center Radio | May 21, 2010 |Wayne Pierce, the Executive Director of the Equity Center, and Lynn Moak Hold an Impromptu Conversation About School Finance Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Lynn Moak, who has over 40 years’ experience in [...]
Straight from the Netherlands: A Comparison of Governance & Financing of Public Schools Between Here and There
Equity Center Radio | May 7, 2010 | Henk van Hezel, an Education Specialist from the Netherlands, Compares the American Educational System to the one in the Netherlands Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. A visitor from Mars; no, but Henk [...]
The Last Installment of our Interview with Nationally Renown School Reform Advocate, Whitney Tilson
Equity Center Radio | April 16, 2010 | Whitney Tilson Completes his Critical Look at the Failings in Our Educational System that Create a Need for Genuine School Reform Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. We have reached the end of [...]
Installment Three of the Crisis in American Schools: An Interview with Whitney Tilson
Equity Center Radio | April 2, 2010 | Whitney Tilson Explains the Second of the Two Critical Gaps in Our Educational System that Create a Need for Genuine School Reform Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Now, in part 3 of [...]
A Right Denied: What Good is it to be Able to sit at the Lunch Counter if you Cannot Read the Menu?
Equity Center Radio | March 19, 2010 | Whitney Tilson Discusses His New Documentary, A Right Denied: The Critical Need for Genuine School Reform. Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. We know that today is not Halloween but you are in [...]
Amy Beneski and the Educational Finance Coalition
Equity Center Radio | March 12, 2010 | Amy Beneski, the Associate Executive Director for Governmental Relations at the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) tells our Audience all About the School Finance Coalition. Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Today, [...]
How the Political Climate in Texas Is Affecting Our Schools: Is it Hot or Cold?
Equity Center Radio | March 05, 2010 | A Discussion with Ken McCraw About the Political Climate in Texas and How Public Schools will be Affected . Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Today, our host, the Equity Center’s Deputy Executive [...]
Omar Garcia and the School Finance “Template”
Equity Center Radio | February 26, 2010 | A Discussion About the School Finance Template with its Originator, Omar Garcia . Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Today, our host, the Equity Center’s Director, Wayne Pierce, interviews Omar Garcia, the Director [...]
An Interview with Dr. Albert Cortez, the Director of Policy for the Intercultural Development Research Association
Equity Center Radio | February 12, 2010 | Part 1 of a 2 Part Series with Dr. Albert Cortez, the Director of Policy for the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) . Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Today, the Equity Center’s [...]
Why We Need Equity In School Financing
Equity Center Radio | January 8, 2010 | An Interview With Judge Scott McCown, “the Edgewood Judge” Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Today Dr. Wayne Pierce completes his interview with the Executive Director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities [...]
Texas Bond Fund
The Texas Education Agency has issued the following press statement: The Texas Permanent School Fund Bond Guarantee Program, closed since March, will re-open in early 2010 and will once again back the bonds issued to pay for school construction. This will save Texas school districts millions of dollars in interest costs. The Internal Revenue Service [...]