# Tom Luce Shaped Texas Education | Austin News Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-news-today-2-min-news-the-daily-news-now-7463304/tom-luce-shaped-texas-education-austin-news Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-news-today-2-min-news-the-daily-news-now-7463304/tom-luce-shaped-texas-education-austin-news.md Podcast: [Austin News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-news-today-2-min-news-the-daily-news-now-7463304) Published: 2026-07-27T22:17:08+00:00 Episode link: https://sources.thednn.ai/2295a75e6ec39862 Audio file: https://api.fastcast.ai/audio/a39778c6-b111-4322-99ca-cc2f08360b73.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/austin-news-today-2-min-news-the-daily-news-now-7463304/episodes/tom-luce-shaped-texas-education-austin-news Duration seconds: 66 ## Resource Texas education reform titan Tom Luce, who helped transform public schooling in the 1980s alongside Ross Perot and later shaped policy as a U.S. education official and founder of Texas 2036, has died at 86 — remembered as a relentless champion for every child’s chance to succeed. Listen in comfort: Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN: advertise@thednn.ai This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting. Report issues to feedback@thednn.ai. View sources & latest updates: https://sources.thednn.ai/2295a75e6ec39862 ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/austin-news-today-2-min-news-the-daily-news-now-7463304/episodes/tom-luce-shaped-texas-education-austin-news/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-news-today-2-min-news-the-daily-news-now-7463304/tom-luce-shaped-texas-education-austin-news.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.