Rice to host screening of education documentary ‘The Texas Promise’

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Amy McCaig
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Rice to host screening of education documentary ‘The Texas Promise’

HOUSTON – (Feb. 17, 2015) – “The Texas Promise,” a documentary film highlighting public education in the state, will be screened at Rice University at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 23 in the Anderson-Clarke Center’s Hudspeth Auditorium. The screening is free and open to the public and will be followed by a panel discussion. Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) and the Center for College Readiness are hosting the event.

WHAT: Screening of “The Texas Promise.”

WHEN: 6:30 p.m. Feb. 23.

WHERE: Hudspeth Auditorium in the Anderson-Clarke Center at Rice University, 6100 Main St.

The 2014 film focuses on public education in Texas and delves into issues of equity, politics and money as Texas makes historic education decisions about opportunity, the economy and democracy. The film also features commentary by Kinder Institute Founding Director Stephen Klineberg.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring HERC Director Ruth López Turley, Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board of Education member Juliet Stipeche and HISD student advocate and parent Sue Deigaard.

For more information on the event or to RSVP, visit http://kinder.rice.edu/TheTexasPromise.

Members of the media interested in attending may RSVP to Amy McCaig, senior media relations specialist at Rice, at 713-348-6777.

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