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Catherine Clark, The Executive Director for Governance Services for the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), Discusses TASB’s Legislative Agenda, and the Move by Some To Adopt a Statewide Property Tax
Equity Center Radio | October 8, 2010 | Catherine Clark, the Associate Executive Director for Governance Services at the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) tells our Audience all About TASB’s Upcoming Lobbying Effort on behalf of Quality Education in Texas for all School Children. She also Addresses What’s Behind the Move to Adopt a [… Read More]
Dr. Bonnie Lesley, the Author of “Money Does Matter! Investing in Texas Children and Our Future”, Discusses the Study and What Its Results Mean for Texas
Equity Center Radio | October 1, 2010 | Today’s Host, Wayne Pierce, the Executive Director of the Equity Center, Speaks to Dr. Bonnie Lesley, About the Equity Center’s Recently Released Pamphlet, Money Does Matter! Investing in Texas Children and Our Future, Which She Authored. Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance [… Read More]
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), [… Read More]
Aledo ISD Continues to Push for Equity in School Finance
Equity Center Radio | August 27, 2010 | Bobby J. Rigues, Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of Aledo Independent School District, and Superintendent of Schools Don Daniel Talk to Wayne Pierce About How Aledo ISD’s Board Members and Superintendent are Taking the Fight for Fair and Adequate Education Funding Around the State Alternative Play [… Read More]
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. [… Read More]
An Interview with Randy Pittenger, Board President of Belton ISD
Equity Center Radio |August 13, 2010 | Randy Pittenger, the Board President at Belton ISD, Talks with the Equity Center’s Executive Director, Wayne Pierce, About the Educational Financial Crisis Facing his District and how Belton is Weathering the Storm. Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on [… Read More]
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 [… Read More]
Joe Smith: Another Go-Around
Equity Center Radio | Another Interview With Joe Smith of TexasISD.com Hosted by Ray Freeman Joe Smith Today Dr. Ray Freeman, the Deputy Executive Director of the Equity Center interviews Joe Smith. This is the second time that Joe has appeared on Equity Center Radio, and, we are sure, it certainly will not be the [… Read More]
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 [… Read More]
An Interview with Carolyn Boyle, the Chair of Texas ParentPAC
Equity Center Radio | April 23, 2010 | Carolyn Boyle, the Chair for Texas ParentPAC tells our Audience all About the PAC and the Difference it is Making in Changing the Political Landscape for Education in Texas . Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the [… Read More]
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 [… Read More]
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 [… Read More]
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, [… Read More]
Part 1 of a Two-Part Series of Remarks by Senator Steve Ogden
Equity Center Radio | January 29, 2010 | A Speech by State Senator Steven Ogden, the Chairman of the State Senate’s Finance Committee . 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 of Equity Center Radio features State Senator Steven Ogden, [… Read More]
What the Future Holds for Our State’s Budget & Taxation: It’s Not A Pleasant Sight
Equity Center Radio | January 15, 2010 | An Interview With Dick Lavine, the Senior Fiscal Analyst for the Center for Policy Policy Priorities Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Today Equity Center Radio hears from Dick Lavine, the Senior Fiscal [… Read More]
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 [… Read More]
The First Installment of an Interview with F. Scott McCown
Equity Center Radio | December 18, 2009 | An Interview With Judge Scott McCown, “the Edgewood Judge” Play You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to ECRadio@EquityCenter.org. Today Dr. Wayne Pierce begins the first installment of his interview with the Executive Director of the Center for Public [… Read More]
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 [… Read More]
Introduction to Equity Center Radio Podcasts
Hear about our new weekly podcast, Equity Center Radio, that will bring you information and opinion about the system of public school funding in the State of Texas. We will have interviews with the leaders of the State and with people who are the movers and shakers in the realm of school finance and funding; [… Read More]
Hello world!
Welcome to Equity Center Radio. Our first podcast will be on the air Friday, November 13, 2009, at 10:45am. While this podcast will not be live, future ones will be and you will be able to call in and ask questions and talk with the host of the show, our Executive Director, Wayne Pierce. We [… Read More]