It’s Education Week on City Cast Houston! All week long we’ll be focusing on how the future of our city is being shaped through education-related developments like early child care, the rise of workforce training, and more. But today, we’re looking at how new state education laws are changing Houston’s public schools and colleges. Host Raheel Ramzanali is talking to Samantha Ketterer, higher education reporter at the Houston Chronicle, and Jaden Edison, K-12 reporter for the Texas Tribune, about these new state laws and what you need to know for this school year and beyond. 

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