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Mr.

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Cannon.

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Yeah, I got good news for you guys.

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Um, you have a school choice right now
already.

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If you want to send your kid to a private

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school, you can do that right now.

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We just don't want you to go to your next

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door neighbor's house and ask them for their
private money

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to send your kid to a private school.

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All right, look, the school voucher scam is
not funded

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by the big massive surplus that we very much
do

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have in Texas.

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It specifically is designed specifically to
take money away from

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our public education system.

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Exactly.

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Case in point, in Plano ISD, for example, we
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were using uh four of our public school
buildings.

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And I've seen this movie before, I know how
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goes.

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The ISD is gonna sell those buildings because
the ISD

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needs the money.

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Some fat cat rich person is gonna purchase
those buildings,

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flip those buildings into charter schools, and
then want a

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voucher program.

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What you're seeing happening right now is a
privatization of

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our public education system.

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This is not the will of the people.

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Google this when you get home.

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It's the will of Tim Dunn and Ferris Folks,
two

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Texas billionaires who fund the majority of
the Republicans in

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Lake.

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Look, guys, again, I I cannot stress this
enough.

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Our public schools are already funded as it
is.

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Though the formula that determines how much
money goes to

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each ISD has not been adjusted since I think
before

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the pandemic, it's in the least, I think
almost a

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decade.

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And every time they try to adjust the rates
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hold for ISDs, I always tie it with a voucher

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scan, which is why it bombs in the house.

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Again, the house dominated by Republicans.

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Even Republicans don't want this either,
especially rural Republicans, because

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they know it will hurt them the hardest.

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Case in point, if you're out in rural Texas,
how

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close is the closest private school to you?

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Will that private school actually take your
kid?

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Does your kid have special needs?

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Because all these private schools have entry
exams and they

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don't need to take your kid in if they don't

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want to.

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In fact, a lot of these private schools don't
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need to opt into the voucher program or even
accept

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being part of the voucher program.

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Guys, public education is a public utility.

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All right?

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a public utility It's.

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We do not defund public utilities.

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Thank you