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Greg Abbott: “School choice existed [in] more than 30 states across the…”

Featuring: Greg Abbott, Republican | Governor of Texas

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Texas Governor Discusses School Choice Legislation and Immigration Policies

Published | Video Starts at 01:06

How do you respond to that? Well, history has proven all of those arguments wrong. The reason why I can say that is because School choice existed [in] more than 30 states across the country and none of those [negative effects] have occurred in those other states. Another way to show this, and that is the size of the school choice program is only going to be about one quarter the size of charter schools in the state of Texas. (01:06–01:14)

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Asserts that school choice programs in over 30 states have not resulted in negative effects mentioned by critics.

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