Laura Rice
Managing Producer at Texas Standard
Managing Producer at KUT-FM (Austin, TX)
@TexasStandard/@KUT Managing Producer. @mujschool grad loving @utaustin land. Film, travel, triathlon, etc. (she/her) 🐘 @[email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
kut.org | Laura Rice
On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Wiley P. Davis, Jr., retired educator, educational and sports consultant, lifelong friend and author of ‘ The Flight of a Thousand Songbirds: A Family’s Courage Leads to a New Life.’‘The Flight of a Thousand Songbirds’ chronicles the Coleman Family in their search for a better life for their children.
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2 weeks ago |
kut.org | Laura Rice
A large crowd came out to celebrate Austin's weirdness at Eeyore's Birthday Party in Pease Park on Saturday. The annual event named for the melancholy donkey from Winnie-the-Pooh began as a party organized by UT Austin students 60 years ago. The festival includes drum circles, costume contests, a sack race, egg toss and face painting. Although she missed the last couple years, Genevieve Eberz of Lexington has been coming since she was a toddler.
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4 weeks ago |
texasstandard.org | Laura Rice
“Water is life.” That’s one of the first lines of a new documentary airing on PBS stations. While the claim that we need water to live should come as a shock to no one, it’s basic truth, and the facts built upon it are eye-opening. The documentary is “Thirst for Power,” and it’s based on a book by the same name by Michael Webber. Webber is the Sid Richardson Chair in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the John J.
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4 weeks ago |
kut.org | Laura Rice
The day many watchers of Texas politics have been waiting for is here: The Texas House is currently debating Senate Bill 2 on the floor. If passed, the contentious proposal would create a $1 billion dollar Education Savings Account plan allowing parents to use public funds towards private school tuition. Past attempts to pass the controversial school voucher measure — a top priority for Gov.
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1 month ago |
kut.org | Laura Rice
The Texas House on Wednesday is poised to debate a contentious bill that would create a voucher program where public funds could be used towards private schools. Senate Bill 2, which was already passed by the Texas Senate in February, would create Education Savings Accounts, or ESAs, allowing parents to use over $10,000 of public funds per student towards private school tuition and other approved educational expenses. The proposal bill was fast-tracked through the Senate just days after Gov.
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