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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 [...]
Dr. Louis Stoerner Discusses his Tenure as President of the Board of Directors of the Equity Center and Talks About the Vital Role Played by the Equity Center in the Realm of School Finance
Equity Center Radio |September 17, 2010 | The President of the Equity Center’s Board of Directors, Dr. Louis Stoerner, Explains to Wayne Pierce, the Equity Center’s Executive Director, and Today’s Host of Equity Center Radio, the Unique Significance of the Equity Center and the Esteem that it has Obtained Among Educators in the State of [...]
Don Rogers, Executive Director of the Texas Rural Education Association, and Wayne Pierce, Executive Director of the Equity Center, Hold a Conversation
Equity Center Radio |September 10, 2010 | The Executive Director of the Texas Rural Education Association, Don Rogers, Explains to Wayne Pierce, the Equity Center’s Executive Director and Today’s Host of Equity Center Radio, the Unique Problems Facing Texas’s Rural Schools. Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Vivian Baker: Belton ISD’s Talented Superintendent Chats About the Tussles Faced by a Rapidly Growing, Low Wealth District
Equity Center Radio | April 14, 2010 | A Discussion with Vivian Baker, Belton ISD’s Dynamic Superintendent of Schools About the Struggles of Maintaining High Academic Standards in a Fast Growing, Low Wealth School District . Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school finance and equity for answer on the air to [...]
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 [...]
Texas Association of School Boards & Its Governmental Relations Initiative: An Interview with Catherine Clark
Equity Center Radio | April 30, 2010 | Catherine Clark, the Associate Executive Director for Governance Services at the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) tells our Audience all About Its Upcoming Lobbying Effort on behalf of Quality Education in Texas for all School Children. Alternative Play Button You can email your questions about school [...]
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 [...]
The Final Stages of Our In-Depth Interview with Whitney Tilson
Equity Center Radio | April 9, 2010 | Whitney Tilson Advocates for Major 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 are entering into the homestretch of our multi-segment series about school reform with nationally known school reformer, Whitney Tilson. [...]
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 [...]
Whitney Tilson Explains Achievement Gap 1 in the Second Installment of His Interview♦
Equity Center Radio | March 26, 2010 | Whitney Tilson Explains One 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. Today we present part 2 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, [...]
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 [...]
The Conclusion of a 2 Part Series with Dr. Albert Cortez
Equity Center Radio | February 19, 2010 Podcast | The Continuation of an Interview with Dr. Albert Cortez, the Director of Policy for the Intercultural Development Research Association . 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 [...]
Part 2 of a Two-Part Series of Remarks of State Senator Steve Ogden
Equity Center Radio | February 5, 2010 Podcast | The Continuation of 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 [...]
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 [...]