Cesar Blanco: “I sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency to quickly…”

“Senator Blanco is pressing the Texas Education Agency for changes to school funding under under House Bill 2, which was an $8.5 billion public school finance bill that was passed earlier this year. I sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency to quickly look at what's going on here in El Paso, but also throughout the state. But specifically for some of these school districts such as EPISD and yisd, to help them and walk them through the process and to identify whether there are any gaps were missing funds for our school districts.” (00:38–00:47)

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