As Gov. Greg Abbott works to pass a school voucher plan in the Texas Legislature, former...
Former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry delivers his speech at opening of the general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2019.between the push for school vouchers in Texas and convincing people nuclear power is safe.
Perry, a school choice advocate who was Secretary of Energy under former President Donald Trump, said he’s convinced that’s not true and said that’s where the fear of nuclear power comes in. With nuclear power, people think of disasters like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. But he said the future of energy is small modular reactors that are safe and affordable.
Public school advocates say that's impossible, since every dollar going to private education would be taken directly from a local school district under the plan Abbott supports. Such losses would mean fewer teachers and staff at the public schools students that remain, they say. Before Perry, former Gov. George W. Bush made vouchers a priority issue, telling the Texas Legislature in 1999 “the time has come to try a pilot voucher program.”
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