State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, chairman of the Texas House Democrat Caucus, considers school vouchers a bad idea and not the way to fix what he believes is a flawed education funding formula.
The governor has these ideas that he wants to privatize schools and have these vouchers, that's only going to take money out of our schools. By my count, we are already short. We are in the negative when it comes to public education funding. So I'll give you a good example. Two years ago, we fully negotiated $47 billion to be spent in public schools. And this time around for this budget, that number is now 38 billion. We're just coming out of a pandemic.
n the Democratic response to the state of the state, it seemed like you opened the door to some negotiations regarding vouchers. Is there room for some give and take?I will say this. I would say that there is nothing to talk about until we find our schools, until we have a commitment from our public schools. I've said this also. We have $59 billion sitting up here in our checking and savings account.
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