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Legacy Education Fund: A Proposed, New Public Education Endowment in Texas
This episode of Intersect Ed was taped on the morning of Friday, November 14, 2025, just a few blocks from the Capitol, during the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival. Our panelists discussed the “Legacy…
Eliminating STAAR: What it Means for Texas Schools
This episode of Intersect Ed discusses the sticking points regarding HB 4 in Texas’ 89th Regular Session, as well as what the special session item – “eliminating the STAAR test” – could mean for…
Recap of the 89th Texas Legislative Session: A Historic Session for Public Education
This episode of Intersect Ed was taped on the morning of Tuesday, June 3, just a few blocks from the Capitol, the day after the 89th Texas Legislative Session ended. Public education and Texas…
The Future of School Measurement: Examining HB 4 and Texas Education Reform
This episode of Intersect Ed discusses how we measure the performance of Texas public schools, the value of local accountability systems, and the ways HB 4 could provide meaningful assessment reform…
A $2 Billion Gap: The Financial Reality of Special Education in Texas Public Schools
Our Intersect Ed host Morgan Smith is joined by Steven Aleman, Senior Policy Specialist at Disability Rights Texas; Amanda Fuentes, Special Education Team Lead at Cibolo Valley Elementary School in…
Pre-K vs. Child Care? Why Texas Families Need Both
This episode of Intersect Ed explores Texas’ early education, focusing in on the challenges faced by public pre-schools and child care providers. Current half-day pre-K funding forces public school…
The 89th Texas Legislative Session: Issues & Insights
This episode of Intersect Ed was taped on the morning of Thursday, Jan 30, just a few blocks from the Capitol, where the 89th Texas Legislative Session is already underway. Experts who meet with…
Teacher Trouble: How Texas' Teacher Shortage is Hurting Our Kids
MORGAN SMITH: Welcome to the Intersect Ed Podcast, where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I’m your host, Morgan Smith, and I am back with you just in time for the 89th…
Special Session: School Finance & Vouchers
MORGAN SMITH: Welcome to the Raise Your Hand Texas Intersect Ed Podcast, where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. Today, we’re talking about the special legislative session…
Rulemaking: How Agencies Change the Rules of the Game
We’re talking about a big change that’s about to wallop Texas school districts. At the end of September, as lawmakers approach an anticipated special session this fall on private school vouchers,…
Rethinking the STAAR Test
How we measure success in Texas public schools? Right now, standardized testing and an A-F accountability system that assigns grades to campuses is used almost entirely to grade our…
Recap of the 88th Texas Legislative Session: A Session Out of Balance
The 2023 legislative session started with a lot of promise. Lawmakers had a historic $33 billion dollar budget surplus, and there was energy and consensus to address a number of public education…
Mentoring Teachers to Create High-Quality Classrooms
Morgan Smith: Welcome to the Intersect Ed Podcast, where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I’m your host, Morgan Smith.Today we are talking about something that could make a…
Teacher Pay: Texas Teachers Deserve a Real Pay Raise
Morgan Smith: Welcome to the Intersect Ed Podcast, where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I’m your host, Morgan Smith. Today we are talking about Texas teachers, and how much…
The School Voucher Debate: Texas Rural Communities
Morgan Smith: You're listening to the Raise Your Hand Texas Intersect Ed Podcast where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I'm your host Morgan Smith, and today, we're taking on…
How Much Is Your Student Worth to Texas?
Morgan Smith: You're listening to the Raise Your Hand Texas IntersectEd podcast where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I'm your host, Morgan Smith. And today we're talking…
Advocacy and the 2021 Legislative Session
As the 87th Legislative Session kicked off last January, there was one word that could be used to describe how many were feeling — uncertain. Uncertain about school funding due to COVID budget woes.…
Bridging the Digital Divide: What Challenge Does Texas Face? (Part 2)
Deep in West Texas is the tiny town of Presidio – a remote community that is 90 miles away from the nearest McDonald’s and more than 200 miles away from the nearest Walmart. So what does a remote…
Bridging the Digital Divide: What Challenge Does Texas Face? (Part 1)
From students using restaurants’ WIFI to parents spending hundreds of dollars a month on hotspots for their children’s schoolwork, our state’s public education system has been forever changed by the…
The Future of Virtual and Remote Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed what schooling has looked like over the past year. It has entirely upended instructional models and brought about a myriad of new issues regarding the…
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