{"id":8096,"date":"2025-10-17T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8096\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:22:16","slug":"school-voucher-rollout-oct-16-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8096\/","title":{"rendered":"School voucher rollout (Oct. 16, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday\u2019s show: The timeline is set for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/education\/article\/texas-school-voucher-program-launch-february-new-21099031.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">how school vouchers will roll out<\/a> in Texas beginning in February \u2014 except that timing might only benefit parents who could already afford to send their kids to private school. Houston Chronicle reporter Isaac Yu explains why.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: Artificial intelligence is shaping our future, but could it also reinforce oppression? Ahead of a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uh.edu\/infotech\/services\/streaming-media\/events\/hobby-school\/elizabeth-d-rockwell-distinguished-lecture\/index.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lecture this afternoon<\/a> at the University of Houston, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/safiyaunoble.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Safiya Umoja Noble<\/a> explores how bias shows up in AI and what it means for marginalized communities.<\/p>\n<p>And we talk with members of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/a.drunkshakespeare.com\/houston\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Drunk Shakespeare Company<\/a>, which has set aside its usual celebration of The Bard\u2019s works to present a production tailor-made for October: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/drunkdracula.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Drunk Dracula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday\u2019s show: The timeline is set for how school vouchers will roll out in Texas beginning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4267,3436,7750,7751,7752,7753,163,4977,987,56,3747,58,4978,57,7754,66,223,7755,4979,513],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-discrimination","tag-dr-safiya-umoja-noble","tag-drunk-dracula","tag-drunk-shakespeare","tag-education","tag-full-show","tag-halloween","tag-houston","tag-houston-chronicle","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-isaac-yu","tag-local","tag-news","tag-school-voucers","tag-shows","tag-university-of-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}