Pride parade losing sponsors (June 27, 2025)

On Friday's show: Thousands are expected to gather in downtown Saturday for the annual Houston Pride parade and festival. However, representatives of Pride Houston 365, the nonprofit organization that has held the event for nearly 50 years, says they've lost about 20 sponsors this year accounting for more than $180,000 in funding because diversity, equity, and inclusion policies have been banned at both the state and federal level, and the LGBTQ+ community has come under attack by political conservatives.

Also this hour: Recent standardized testing shows efforts to emphasize STEM-related learning is paying off, but is it at the expense of other subjects for which those same students seem to lag? We discuss the push and pull between STEM and literacy.

Then, from a spot on Pasadena's City Council being decided by a coin toss, to Texas is developing its own test to license psychologists, we hammer out The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week.

And we meet the cast and crew of Ensemble Theatre’s production of Tap Dance Kid, a musical about a 10-year-old child who dreams of becoming a tap dancer on Broadway.