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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 [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]