Welcome to Business Wednesday on a Friday, continuing our critically acclaimed series.

What's going on with these schools?

I'm joined today by a dumb zone listener named Chris Roby.

He's with an organization called

Raise Your Hand, Texas. He's the regional advocacy director for the greater Fort Worth region.

He reached out after the episode where I talked with a few great fine Collieville parents about

some school closings. And basically this serves as a primer, at least for me, for how all this works.

Two main areas of focus here are funding and testing.

Again, this is what I would call the educational piece, shoddy.

As Chris explains how these things work now and how in the view of the organization he represents,

they could work better.

One quick note, the candidate forum that Chris mentions here actually has not happened yet.

It's February 24th.

More info at raise your hand, Texas.org on the events page.

Here you go.

Thanks, Jake.

You know, after that podcast you released back in December on your home district,

listening, you talk to you, talk to your advocates and kind of work through what's happening locally.

When I listen to it, it occurred to me that it deserved a statewide conversation because you know everything that's

happening in your local district um it's not isolated it's not it's not it's not happening in a vacuum

there's a reason for it um and it's happening across the state so yeah i think i think this is going to

be a great conversation yeah so you sort of i think it probably just has to do with the age that I am and the spot in life that I am in.

...