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

<p>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.</p><p><b>Recommended content:</b></p><ul><li>“Advance school choice, because Black minds matter, too” —<a href='https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4071340-advance-school-choice-because-black-minds-matter-too/'>Denisha Allen</a></li><li>“School choice faces special session fight in Texas” —<a href='https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4242567-school-choice-faces-special-session-fight-in-texas/'>The Hill</a></li><li>“What you make depends on where you live: College earnings across states and metropolitan areas” —<a href='https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/what-you-make-depends-on-where-you-live'>Fordham Institute</a></li><li>Leila Bengali, Marcus Sander, Robert Valletta, and Cindy Zhao, “<a href='https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/el2023-22.pdf'>Falling college wage premiums by race and ethnicity</a>,” The Federal Research Bank of San Francisco (August 2023).</li></ul><p><b>Feedback Welcome:</b> Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Daniel Buck at <a href='mailto:dbuck@fordhaminstitute.org'>dbuck@fordhaminstitute.org</a>.</p>