Episode Details

Part 1:
We talk with Jaden Edison, reporter for the Texas Tribune.
We discuss the school vouchers now in place in Texas, for which the initial budget authorization is $1 Billion, and will likely grow to several time that.
Vouchers are being granted mostly to parents who already have children in private schools. Some private schools are shut out of that because they are being classified as being training grounds for 'terrorists', without proof or even examination. We discuss criteria, oversight (none), and the effect on public schools, effect on rural schools in Texas.
Part 2:
We talk with Bill Curry and Jamie Rowen,
We discuss the proliferation of ICE human warehouses, centers where detainees will be kept. What are the implications of such local "concentration camps" for the neighborhoods and towns where this will be done?

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Music: "That's how every empire falls", John Pine  2015