Where is all of your money actually going? The hundreds or even thousands you’re paying every single month to the state public school system.

A deeper look into the engine room of the system reveals a core problem: we don’t actually fund students, but rather a gargantuan dysfunctional machine.

EXPOSED is a podcast series featuring a deep dive on stories the cronies and establishment players don’t want told, and Season 2 uncovers Texas’ government-run public school system. Despite the decades of politicians’ promises, attempted reforms, new programs, outlandish buildings, more bureaucracy, and untold billions and billions of dollars, the current education machine isn’t producing better results for our kids—in fact, the situation is only getting worse.

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Season 9 Episode 1: Lotto Lies: The Gamble That Never Paid Off

Texans were told the lottery would fund education, but that was a lie. Examine the lottery’s predatory nature, and how the agency that administers the game has a bad habit of going rogue, exposing Texans to more pernicious forms of gambling.

Exposed Season 9 Episode 2: The Inside Job

Find out how an international gambling syndicate secured one of the largest jackpots in Texas history and how the lottery commission, the agency tasked with refereeing the lottery, helped.