Jun 27, 2022
We continue our summer fun with the third installment of our four-part series on public education. The goal of this series is to prepare listeners to discuss public education issues with elected officials and candidates for office…note-taking is encouraged. In today’s episode, Scott has a lively conversation with...
Jun 20, 2022
This week we continue our summer fun with the second installment of our four part series on public education. Rejoining us today will be one of the state’s leading experts on public school policy, Ellen Williams, an attorney and public school expert with 35 years of experience in and around the Capitol. Later in the...
Jun 9, 2022
It is summer vacation for many...but here at Texas Impact, we think it's time to focus on public education! We hope to provide some summer homework–not to prepare kids to go back to school, but to prepare you for conversations with your elected representatives and candidates going into election season. Joining us this...
Jun 3, 2022
Weekly Witness had planned to kick off a series on public education policy for the month of June with a conversation on vouchers and charter schools, but current events intervened. We spend this week talking about the Uvalde school shooting, focusing on outsized connection between gun violence and public schools. Scott...
May 22, 2022
This week we are excited to welcome our good friend Bishop Mike McKee to the program. Bishop McKee is the Bishop of the North Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, based out of Dallas, and joins us to celebrate the launch of the new bishop-led podcast Unfinished Church. Later in program, Josh Houston...