Billionaires Are Dismantling Public Education in Texas. Your State Could Be Next.
Texas just passed a law that could defund public education. Vouchers send public taxpayer dollars to private schools. It could cost taxpayers $10 billion by 2030.
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@emaaddar5017
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Even after vouchers the, school is still retaining more money as it would cost more than $10k to educate that student. The voucher program benefits public schools if anything as it lessens the load while retaining $2-$5k per voucher.
@utxex97
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Until the majority of my fellow Texans vote out the Republicans, nothing will change. Sadly, I very much doubt that will ever happen.
@AbsentOrange11
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Texans wanted this, you'll never convince me otherwise. I lived there for 3 years, Texas is the poster child for voting against your own interests.
@Gazoo-o7z
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
LOL !!! Abolish school and problem solved. School is where you go to learn how to be stupid, gullible and obedient.
@maryannejackson2556
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Sorry, I stronger disagree! Personally experienced failure of the public school system in America! Most Americans do not trust the public schools today! School choice gives many parents more choices for their children's education!
@bluestaticsvs9610
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
My issue with this, is that parents will pull there kids, then there kids get kicked out of the school and now they have to send them back to public school. Parents would need to pay that back.
@DimaRakesah
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
NO PRIVATE SCHOOLS ANYWHERE! Public schools will magically be better if the rich have to send their kids to the same schools as the rest of us.
@telengardforever7783
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
MAGA cultists don't need to be educated. They simply need to worship Trump and Jesus (in that order).
@ChutterBuggins
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
They won't need education in the pods 🐛
@followyershadow
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
🤔upside is the kid doesn't have to go where unaccountable bureaucrats dictate what they learn and fund an ever increasing and insulated administrative state where results have no meaning and who knows who set the pollicies
downside is possibly private schools will (like colleges just raise the tuition and give the increased number of students junk education)
or kids even if they apply won't get into a good education but there are schools like that in the public school system too🤷
@valm9462
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
capitalism is uber cancer
@zsedcftglkjh
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Public schools suck! Our kids can't read, complete a basic equation, and lag behind countries with 1/10th our school funding. The system is broken. You refused to fix it. You get what you deserve.
@Rarcade
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
no not mine but 👍! 😊
@sagafoo
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
I know someone who knows someone in a public schoool and they mysteriously are missing a million dollars and since then they now say they also owe 2 million…so they cant afford anything. Its weird and scary.
@JaydnDufur-l8u
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Coming into this before I watch the whole video as a Texan, I’m pretty aware of the situation and I don’t think it will do anything accept for separate the rich to the poor, so honestly I could care less. Now I’ll watch. Also I hate how you have a risk of putting your parents in jail for missing too many days in a year because public schools take your taxes for you being in school
3:15 there are no white only private schools now, this does not apply to our time and age
Alright after watching this , I get it they give vouchers, and vouchers come from taxes, so in turn they think it’s coming specifically from public school funding, but they did not say why this is happening does the state government get a cut of the private school income? Very poor journaling on their part
After using AI I get it, Texas spends thousands of dollars a year per student, every student is close to 12,000$ a year for the Texas government, so if the wealthier kids leave with vouchers, they save 2,000$ per student, and they’ll pay less because of the lower amount of children in school, why can’t they explain this??
@annazfker2028
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
… FACT: U.S GOVERMENT HAS BEEN INFILTRATED BY ISRAELI INTELIGENCE.
@annazfker2028
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
… WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO NATIVE AMERICANS ???
@timburrows5807
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
We. Could, we might, we will be. For Gods sake. Never a solution to the so called problem. Public education has failed miserably all around the country. Did it have anything to do with DEI? No? Oh, so suddenly its a problem? Managa Madonna.
@timburrows5807
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Schools are a pervs paradise these days. The schools are being run by evil beings. I would never allow my kids into a public school. We are in our seventis now. Our children were homeschooled. It kept us poor but the kids are doing great.
@Peace-ju9us
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
UNEDUCATED people are easy to control with Bread and Circus. So, gee, thanks MAGA voters.
@danman1789
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
I just can't imagine teaching out without unions and collective bargaining. How do they do it?…
@Me97202
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Because uneducated people are easier to manipulate. It’s the GOP playbook.
@mohsinpanjwani5875
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
We need to remove the politicians that are taking bribes to destroy the country
@GunnerLanam
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Liberal BULLSHIT !!
@pendleton123
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
I live in Dallas with a Toddler. We pay $1200 for Daycare and she'll start Kindergarten next year in Public school. Folks were complaining about taxes yet now we're about to pay "tuition" for our kids from K through College. There's these "Vouchers" but there's alot of public schools closing here in Dallas which means there will be wait list in the future and the families that can't afford it will not have a spot for their kid. This is really creating a large gap between Mid class and Poverty. I sit in middle class and we already struggle with shoe string budgets, saving for future college and retirement.
@oNeGiAnTLiE
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Where will people sent their children to get their deviant behavior, trangender coaching, and masectomies? 😅
@JoseFeenanndez
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
More sooner than later we have to admit our country is falling apart from East to West
@bethparker1500
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
It's the south, when was it really ever public? The north learned all about forming Charter schools from the south.
@JoeyCrystalMcArthur
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
It's not just Texas..it's going to be in every state. They want only the super rich to live everyone else will be placed into oblivion because we sleep and keep voting for our own enslavement without a fight.
@aspirelee1116
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Americans are already far behind the world in education. Red states even worse. Americans don't even know squat about their own country and only rely on brainwashing and miss information.
Abbot know he is the dumbest person in Texas and wants the bar set to his standard.
@tanime
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Where I live in Canada, our province just straight up funds private school with taxpayer dollars. It's a point of contention similar to this. That money could be used in public schools. The private school near my house has been completely rebuilt twice since the 1990s with beautiful modern buildings, while some public schools still wait for seismic upgrades for their 150 year old buildings.
@originalmamagrizzly2478
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Vouchers DO NOT KILL PUBLIC SCHOOLS!! LIES!!
@Nopadope
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Hahahahaha, Texas having the day the voted for is hilarious
@__unwavering
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
I don't have kids. Ain't my fucking problem actually.
@texasshepherdess4586
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Private schools shouldn't get federal or state funds. Neither should public schools. A community's school should be funded and run by the community. Politicians' great talent is getting us to argue about the wrong matter entirely.
@scottk.3636
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
What would Pelosi, AOC, Clintons, Obamas…do without their mega millions investment portfolios? DNC cheerleaders have the depth of a birdbath.
@wiolomatic
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
This is stupid propaganda. Any school needs money public or private. With vouchers all schools are becoming private and you can go where you want to go. Public schools get less money and will fall? Good! This means they were not good money managers in the first place! Pushing more money in places that give no more benefits If given more money is pointless.
@r0sal3sr
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Remember: nothing you really value should be left to govt to run. This will eventually be the result.
@lovemoviesful2
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
They want the public to pay for their private schools and their Christian school…come on, geez Texas.
@tomfooleryhandle
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Pro tip: stop electing people that hate you.
@daily.timeline
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Billionaires do not own private schools. Public schools get a boat load of money yet can't produce any better students
@SabrinaRandall-v4c
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Thank you them vouchers go to the rich thank you that already sent the kids to private school😢 where are helping them
@reneesimerale
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
In Ohio we have a case going against the Federal Government and the state it is called
Vouchers Hurt Ohio, it was filed in 2024 and i sincerely hope for our public schools that Ohio can win this case! Especially because Ohio is bringing up our Constitutional rights and how these vouchers and private schools are against them. I've seen the devistation in my rural area, our High School has closed down, in the next rural county over the school closed down. K-12. My grandkids are beeing bused 45 mins away to the next county over where we actually have two elementary schools. The class sizes are MUCH larger now because they had to split two counties where the schools closed 🤷♀️🤦♀️ it is just a nighmare.
@Bigboxpro
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Are public schools really delivering a good product? Have you hung out with a 19 year old lately? And education is about learning but you are saying we need schools for sports?
@shesaidsomething1
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
This is another way to push poor people into an absolute dead end. This is a way to push middle class families into poverty. This is a way to make rich people richer.
@monicagoodman2877
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
In TN it’s been proven that students that attended private schools did worse on standardized test than students that attend public schools.
@juanboyd7712
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
These people only understand violence. They're not listening to us
@mannys2893
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
I've lived in TX my whole life. San Antonio, Austin, Houston, DFW didn't vote for Trump, elderly rurual citizens fearful of "change" are the ones who voted for him.
@Nottrollingthinking
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Just remember – you voted for this. Americans voted for this.
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