State Rep. James Talarico on school choice fight | Texas: The Issue Is
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott is confident that school choice legislation will pass during the next legislative session, but Democrats say they won't roll over without a fight. FOX 7's Rudy Koski talks to vocal voucher opponent State Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, about the fight ahead and if there is room for common ground.
6:03 10k per student doesnt get anywhere, check private school costs people.
If you don’t want 10k feel free to send it to me
Straight out, the vouchers are for the profit of the private education people. They will spend the money and influence to make more profit off our tax dollars.
My say, you want to send your children to a private school then you pay for it.
Let us use the money properly and where it is supposed to be. Pay the teachers and this will be a great investment in the future. That is what the children are.
Greg is all bumper sticker.
School choice vouchers are following students. Let’s be fair to everyone. 👍👍
Where is your pro-school choice voice in this dialogue? I was hoping to hear both sides.
Looking at this in a few different unbiased ways one the public school system is broken and has been broken for years, we can either identify the problems and spend the money to fix them or go to a voucher system which will cost probably more than the cost to fix the current system. At this current time, the state has offered 10,000 per child school voucher, but it actually takes 15,000 per child to educate already a shortfall. In the future, those vouchers would have to continue to increase at taxpayers' cost in which the voters/state may not want to continue to increase the vouchers as needed because of tax purposes, then the children would suffer unless thier families have the money to support thier school which many don't that's when you will start to have schools and education separated based on financial ability for under college aged children. If there is an option given to the voters to make a choice between both public school and vouchers, properly fund them both.
I personally believe that all options should be on the table, but nothing should be acted on until the voters of TX have had a chance to vote on that issue. Form an exploritory committee that consists of individuals with non-political views but with the best interest of the children, nothing else. This issue is such a delicate issue if the wrong decision is made, it could ruin our children's lives for generations to come. This issue needs to be settled by the voters and not the politicians forcing what they want. After all, these are the voters' kids' lives at stake.
The public school system is a disaster. People who have money will simply send their children to private schools or move to an area that has good schools. This is only about children who have less options and the Dems want to give them even fewer options. They want to keep the power and not allow the parents the choice. Thank you Greg Abbott!
baloney, it's called segregation, we've seen this farce before. The well to do get tax dollars to send kids to private and for profit schools, the less fortunate don't have the resources and public school funding loses funding as is going on now by abbott. Pay for your own private schools!
It seems to me that the Responsibility to educate children falls to Parents and NOT the local school system. As I understand it, both Now and in the past, parents get the option of choosing public (tax funded) schools, private schools, or home school programs. All citizens have to pay for the tax funded option that parents can select. I feel as long as the first sentence is true then the default options should be the home school option and NOT the public school option. Currently, if a parent does not select an option to educate their child then they can be taken to court and forced to select the public school option. If a parent has the responsibility then why should the homeschool option not be the default option? Public schools need the ability to reject students back to the homeschool options because education is the responsibility of the parents and NOT the public school. The public school is ONLY there to provide the parents with the option to meet their responsibility. Giving the parents the vouchers only makes sense to me.
That being said public schools have to operate their facilities and fund their staff so they should be fully funded otherwize they will fail and not be able to continue to be a good options for the parent to select if it is their selected option. I want the Texas state government to fully fund our public school system for a good solid option for our children but I feel parents should get the vouchers to spend with the options available to because I feel that is the Right thing to do and I see this as a moral Right vs Wrong issue.
is it the right, moral thing to do for the well to do to get tax dollars to send their kids to private and for profit schools that don't have to provide transportation, don't have to provide special education services, don't have to meet the same operating requirements of public schools? If you can't drive your kid to school you are automatically excluded from most all privates. That's call segregation! What's moral and right about that?
Anybody who pays tuition to send their children to private schools or who homeschools their children should be exempt from paying public school taxes. I support dismantling and abolishing the United States Department of Education and allowing the individual states and local school districts full control of the public schools and the student full control over public colleges and public universities. Anybody who needs student loans can go to a bank or credit union to apply just like a house, or a car loan and these loans should require hard inquiry and credit approval. They need to eliminate any new Federal student loans and those who owe money on existing Federal student loans should be required to pay it back.
Great go into debt before the kids get to college.
I don't support it because loans8 through a bank don't wait until you graduate until you have to start paying them back. Even banks will tell you that a student loan is a better option for kids that are still in school. Not every parent can afford to send their kids to private schools and not every parent has the time to homeschool their kids either. So what your saying is that schools and universities should be controlled by the state or county their in while still paying federal taxes. If that's the case the.schools or universities shouldn't have to pay the federal government anything. Why should these education foundations pay the federal government for literally doing nothing for them?
@@FrankMaderoit blows me away how selfish some of these maga idiots are. Like Trump is the future being literally almost 80.
@@bateseanderson2667 Students can also go to their local community college instead and live at home as well as pack and bring their own lunch from home. Students do not need to live in a dorm or a luxury frat house and an expensive meal plan to get a good college education. Community colleges are a lot less expensive, and some states offer tuition free community college.
To be honest, you go to college or university to attend class, study, and graduate with a degree, not to party and get drunk and wasted.
@bryang3635 I agree and you see alot more kids messing around at college and not doing anything accumulating all this debt for nothing. I paid off my student loans and it took years. My mom paid off all of hers, and my brother has his payments under control. If your going to college and spend all that money do what your suppose to do because you can't get rid of student loans and their going to get their money one way or another. I tell my daughter every day be better then me and mom. I believe if your an educational foundation that pays state and federal taxes both the state and federal should be helping in some way. Their should be more strict educational standards though because right now you literally have to fail an entire year of college to get kicked off of financial aid and then your only kicked off of it for a semester.
School failed my children. I want choice for my grandchildren. Go pro choice vouchers
voucher scam...lol