Cesar Blanco: “Public schools are the backbone of the community.”

“Instead, it drains public schools from critical resources, leaving rural communities, English learners, and working families in my district with fewer choices, not more. Many of us here, as I do, represent communities where the Public schools are the backbone of the community. In places like Presidio or Van Horn, Fort Stockton, there are no private schools there, no way to transfer to a private school down the road in those towns.” (00:35–00:43)

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