#165 The Politics of State Takeovers

Have You Heard heads to Houston, where the state now controls Texas’ largest school district. We’ll meet teachers and parents who say the takeover of the schools in this Democratic city is fundamentally about politics. And we’ll try to make sense of how the takeover fits into the efforts by Governor Greg Abbott to bring private school vouchers to the Lone Star state. Spoiler: it does.

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#166 The Voucher Scam

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#164 Plutocratic Philanthropists are Bad for Schools–and Democracy