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Gina Hinojosa: “Greg Abbott [took] a billion [dollars] from our neighborhood public schools to give to unaccountable private…”

Featuring: Gina Hinojosa, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 49

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Texas was the opposite. You can't make it here. You can't make it nowhere. That was the Texas I grew up in, right? The … Greg Abbott [took] a billion [dollars] from our neighborhood public schools to give to unaccountable private schools in his voucher scam. … That's our money. You know I'm right. There's another billion he took from our neighborhood public schools to give to give to unaccountable private schools in his voucher scam. (04:34–07:23)

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Asserts that Greg Abbott redirected a billion dollars from public schools to private schools through a voucher program.

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