#891: The fight for school choice in the Lone Star State, with Denisha Allen

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Denisha Allen, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, joins Mike to discuss if school choice can win a victory in Texas’s special legislative session. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reports on a new study that examines the shrinking wage premium for college degrees.

Recommended content:

• “Advance school choice, because Black minds matter, too” —Denisha Allen
• “School choice faces special session fight in Texas” —The Hill
• “What you make depends on where you live: College earnings across states and metropolitan areas” —Fordham Institute
• Leila Bengali, Marcus Sander, Robert Valletta, and Cindy Zhao, “Falling college wage premiums by race and ethnicity,” The Federal Research Bank of San Francisco (August 2023).

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