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The stated goal for school vouchers has been to provide educational equity. However, after years of implementation in other states, it's clear that vouchers are failing students and exacerbating income inequality. We now know that voucher programs hurt low-income students. But billionaires continue to push vouchers, especially in Texas.
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The state of Texas is proposing to adopt a curriculum for Texas public schools that includes Christian-based religious references in K-5 education. A report finds the plan factually flawed and distorts the Bible.
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State Representative Steve Allison lost in the Republican Primary to Marc LaHood, making the Alamo Heights area House District up for grabs. Laurel Jordan Swift is the Democrat in the race for District 121 that watchers say could be flipped blue on November 5th.
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Barbara Jordan was a trailblazing American politician, civil rights leader, and the first Southern Black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Mary Ellen Curtin chronicles Jordan's life in her book, She Changed the Nation.
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Nathan Buchanan is the Republican candidate for Bexar County sheriff and is challenging Democrat incumbent Sheriff Javier Salazar.
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Lisa Phillips is speaking out about the sex abuse she experienced from Jeffrey Epstein. She is an advocate for women healing from abuse and trauma.
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Intense political divide, debates about citizenship, fears of political violence, and a public unsure about whether the presidency can even work— these were some of the challenges that John Adams had to solve— and in the process he helped to create what we recognize as the power of the presidency and the creation of political norms.
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CNN’s chief political correspondent Dana Bash joins us to discuss America’s deadliest presidential election—the election of 1872. Bash has co-authored a new book about the first run for the white house after the civil war that led to hundreds of dead and warfare in the streets. And the eerie parallels to today’s divided nation.
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Along with his brother and friend, David Zucker directed and produced the 1980 movie ‘Airplane!’ which has become a classic in cinema. Zucker has also directed The Naked Gun series starring Leslie Nielson, and the later Scary Movies in the early 2000s.
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KLRN, San Antonio’s PBS affiliate, has announced a new season of ¡SALUD!, a groundbreaking series that tells the stories of local Latinas who are leading in business, government, and the arts.
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Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will the Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career public servants.In the new book “Where Tyranny Begins,” Pulitzer Prize–recognized journalist David Rohde investigates how Trump systematically turned the country’s two most powerful law-enforcement agencies into his personal political weapons.
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Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs like Medicaid, affordable housing and subsidies. There is a vast web of entrenched companies that profit from regulating the lives of the poor with business models that depend on exploiting low-income Americans. The new book Poverty for Profit explains.
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Last week South Texas candidate Cecilia Castellano, her legislative aide Manuel Medina, and other campaign workers were raided by the AG’s office. Officials say it was part of an investigation into a vote harvesting operation.
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What do kids today say they want to be when they grow up? One top dream job is “influencer.” Due to the rise of social media, becoming a star of the small screen is now a top career. And UTSA is launching a new degree program to teach how to be an effective digital influencer.What’s behind this innovative program?
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We are a nation of immigrants, never more than now. The beacon of the American Dream continues to attract the tired and poor yearning to be free—despite the barbed wire lining the Rio Grande and the political hatred. Most immigrants come to this country to work hard and find their place in the land of opportunity. Veteran journalist Ray Suarez documented the stories of this new wave of arrivals.
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By all accounts the Uvalde school massacre was a failure of law enforcement to protect the lives of children. But you wouldn’t know that by looking at the lack of accountability at the Texas Department of Public Safety. Director Steve McCraw didn’t have to resign. In fact, he got a big raise after the shooting. How is it that the DPS has dodged responsibility for its failures in Uvalde?
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The refrigerator has become so common that we may not give it a great deal of thought, but this one appliance has had a tremendous influence on the way we live at home. And yet, less than 100 years ago, people didn’t have refrigerators at all. Nicola Twilley is the author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves