On Wednesday's show: Under a confidential new plan, the new state-managed leadership at Houston ISD plans to base teacher pay on test scores by the 2025-26 school year. We talk with News 88.7 education reporter Dominic Anthony Walsh about how the plan would operate and how he learned this information.

Also this hour: Razor wire, a wall of buoys, accounts of migrants being mistreated -- reports from the border are prompting calls for federal intervention into the Abbott administration’s efforts in Texas. We discuss the politics of border security and other developments in politics in our weekly roundup.

Then, we talk about the city beneath the city -- downtown Houston's tunnel system.

And we visit Explore Asia, a new permanent, interactive exhibit at Asia Society Texas dedicated to exposing visitors to five different Asian countries and the life and culture there.