We’re livestreaming as the Texas House debates legislation aimed at boosting per-student funding for almost every school district and charter in the state.
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State Government
Thompson and White on CPS, public ed, mass incarceration (video)
Full video of Evan Smith’s 3/31 conversation with state Reps. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, and James White, R-Hillister.
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Politics
Watch House Speaker Joe Straus discuss the Texas legislative session
Watch a livestream of Texas House Speaker Joe Straus discussing the 85th Legislative Session with Jim Henson of the Texas Politics Project.
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FBI Director James Comey spoke at UT-Austin
We livestreamed remarks by James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, at the Intelligence in Defense of the Homeland symposium at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Public Education
Former education commissioners on Texas’ public ed future (video)
Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith talks about the future of public education with two former Texas education commissioners, Jim Nelson and Robert Scott, at the Tribune’s March public education symposium.
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Public Education
Is Texas failing special education students? (video)
Houston Chronicle reporter Brian Rosenthal discusses the state’s special education policies with a panel of experts at The Texas Tribune’s March public education symposium.
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Public Education
Are Texas schools and students making the grade? (video)
Texas Tribune reporter Aliyya Swaby weighs testing and accountability standards with a panel of experts at the Tribune’s March public education symposium.
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Public Education
Should the Texas Legislature pass a school choice program? (video)
Texas Tribune reporter Aliyya Swaby interviews advocates and opponents of school vouchers at The Texas Tribune’s March public education symposium.
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Public Education
House and Senate education chairs weigh in on vouchers, school finance (video)
Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith interviews state Rep. Dan Huberty and state Sen. Larry Taylor — their chambers’ respective education chairman — on the 85th Texas Legislature’s approach to public ed.
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Adler on Uber, sanctuary cities, Trump (video)
Full video of Evan Smith’s 3/9 conversation with Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin.
