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Here comes a new special session from our
Texas governor.

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Governor Abbott said that Texas teachers
should get a pay

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raise.

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Oh, that's cool.

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What's the catch?

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Abbott, we know, has also pushed lawmakers to
pass taxpayer

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funded education savings accounts or ESAs to
allow some students

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to attend private schools.

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Uh yeah, let me stop you right there, Chief.

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That ESAs you're talking about is actually the
school voucher

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program.

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It's a program specifically designed to take
money away from

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public schools and send them to private
schools.

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Granted, the TX ledge is rich right now with a

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good surplus, a good problem to have, but
instead of

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just sending money to private schools to fund
them, they

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want to take money away from public schools in
the

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process, all calling it school choice when
really you lose

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the choice to go to public schools since they
will

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be defunded under this program as money is
ripped away

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from the public sector and given to the
private sector.

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Attempts to tie both the teacher raises and
the ESAs

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together failed in the House.

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Yes.

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So in other words, yes, they are going to be

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tied together, and this whole thing is a wolf
in

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sheep's clothing because we're gonna give
money to school teachers,

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but then we're gonna defund the entire public
school education

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system with the school voucher program.