Nov 18, 202532 min
This episode of Intersect Ed was taped on the morning of Friday, November 14, 2025, just a few blocks from the Capitol, during the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival. Our panelists discussed the “Legacy Education Fund,” a new...
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Intersect Ed
Hosted by Raise Your Hand Texas · society · EN
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Where the stories of Texas public education policy and practice meet.
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Who hosts Intersect Ed?
Intersect Ed is hosted by Raise Your Hand Texas. The show has published 31 episodes to date.
What has Intersect Ed covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Legacy Education Fund: A Proposed, New Public Education Endowment in Texas" (18 November 2025, 32 minutes), "Eliminating STAAR: What it Means for Texas Schools" (8 August 2025, 15 minutes), and "Recap of the 89th Texas Legislative Session: A Historic Session for Public Education" (4 June 2025, 45 minutes).
How often does Intersect Ed publish?
Intersect Ed publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 20 minutes across 31 episodes.
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Aug 8, 202515 minThis episode of Intersect Ed discusses the sticking points regarding HB 4 in Texas’ 89th Regular Session, as well as what the special session item – “eliminating the STAAR test” – could mean for accountability in our...
Jun 4, 202545 minThis episode of Intersect Ed was taped on the morning of Tuesday, June 3, just a few blocks from the Capitol, the day after the 89th Texas Legislative Session ended. Public education and Texas legislative policy...
May 12, 202514 minThis episode of Intersect Ed discusses how we measure the performance of Texas public schools, the value of local accountability systems, and the ways HB 4 could provide meaningful assessment reform for our schools and...
Apr 9, 202511 minOur Intersect Ed host Morgan Smith is joined by Steven Aleman, Senior Policy Specialist at Disability Rights Texas; Amanda Fuentes, Special Education Team Lead at Cibolo Valley Elementary School in...
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Mar 13, 202513 minThis episode of Intersect Ed explores Texas’ early education, focusing in on the challenges faced by public pre-schools and child care providers. Current half-day pre-K funding forces public school districts in Texas to...
Jan 31, 202542 minThis episode of Intersect Ed was taped on the morning of Thursday, Jan 30, just a few blocks from the Capitol, where the 89th Texas Legislative Session is already underway. Experts who meet with staffers, legislators...
Jan 9, 202514 minMORGAN SMITH: Welcome to the Intersect Ed Podcast, where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I’m your host, Morgan Smith, and I am back with you just in time for the 89th Legislative Session. And...
Episode #23
Special Session: School Finance & Vouchers
Oct 13, 202315 minMORGAN SMITH: Welcome to the Raise Your Hand Texas Intersect Ed Podcast, where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. Today, we’re talking about the special legislative session that began Oct. 9, and...
Sep 6, 202312 minWe’re talking about a big change that’s about to wallop Texas school districts. At the end of September, as lawmakers approach an anticipated special session this fall on private school vouchers, about one out of every...
Episode #21
Rethinking the STAAR Test
Aug 7, 202318 minHow we measure success in Texas public schools? Right now, standardized testing and an A-F accountability system that assigns grades to campuses is used almost entirely to grade our schools. Accountability, and the...
Jun 30, 202321 minThe 2023 legislative session started with a lot of promise. Lawmakers had a historic $33 billion dollar budget surplus, and there was energy and consensus to address a number of public education issues. Instead...
May 18, 202314 minMorgan Smith: Welcome to the Intersect Ed Podcast, where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I’m your host, Morgan Smith. Today we are talking about something that could make a positive difference...
May 8, 202321 minMorgan Smith: Welcome to the Intersect Ed Podcast, where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I’m your host, Morgan Smith. Today we are talking about Texas teachers, and how much we pay them. Or I...
Apr 27, 202321 minMorgan Smith: You're listening to the Raise Your Hand Texas Intersect Ed Podcast where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I'm your host Morgan Smith, and today, we're taking on a topic that has...
Episode #16
How Much Is Your Student Worth to Texas?
Apr 6, 202321 minMorgan Smith: You're listening to the Raise Your Hand Texas IntersectEd podcast where the stories of public education policy and practice meet. I'm your host, Morgan Smith. And today we're talking about the amount of...
Episode #15
Advocacy and the 2021 Legislative Session
Aug 20, 202124 minAs the 87th Legislative Session kicked off last January, there was one word that could be used to describe how many were feeling — uncertain . Uncertain about school funding due to COVID budget woes. Uncertain about the...
Jun 7, 202115 minDeep in West Texas is the tiny town of Presidio – a remote community that is 90 miles away from the nearest McDonald’s and more than 200 miles away from the nearest Walmart. So what does a remote city like Presidio have...
May 14, 202119 minFrom students using restaurants’ WIFI to parents spending hundreds of dollars a month on hotspots for their children’s schoolwork, our state’s public education system has been forever changed by the pandemic. In this...
Episode #12
The Future of Virtual and Remote Learning
Apr 1, 202119 minThe COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed what schooling has looked like over the past year. It has entirely upended instructional models and brought about a myriad of new issues regarding the equity and...
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