Texas Standard for May 13, 2016
A long-awaited decision on how Texas pays for its kids to get an education. The ruling? It’s ugly, but’s its constitutional. Also: The Obama administration ups the ante in the Bathroom Wars of 2016, issuing a directive to all schools in the US. Texas is plotting a legal pushback. And: A de facto Fort Knox for Texas? At the GOP convention in Dallas, companies pitch plans to store billions in Texas bullion. But why? Plus: 100 years after the Waco horror, what do modern day Texans know about that ugly chapter of history? Those stories and much more, today on the Texas Standard:
Miguel Gutierrez Jr./KUT
Producer, and today's host, Laura Rice, cuts audio for the show.
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