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Kelly Hancock: “We also started in September, launching the largest school…”

Featuring: Kelly Hancock, Republican | State Senator, Texas, District 9

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Holds 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Event In La Grange As State's Primary Nears

Published February 19, 2026 | Video Starts at 07:30

That's what our citizens deserve, is best value for their tax dollars so that we don't waste tax dollars and we're prioritizing what is best value. So we got rid of DEI in the program. We also started in September, launching the largest school choice program in the nation, Texas Education Freedom Accounts. Giving parents and children the opportunity to choose the education that was best for them, that fits them best. And we set records on day one. (07:30–07:38)

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“There's $11 billion that's coming back to refund Texas for the money we spent.”
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“We're well over 110,000 students that for the first time get to decide what is best for them and utilize those resources.”
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“Governor Abbott said, I want this out of state government. I want this out of our agencies.”
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“I got in there and I looked and I said, there's a program called hub, historically underutilized business Hub. It might as well be spelled D…”
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“We got rid of dei. No sense talking about it in rhetoric. It's gone.”
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“We're going to be in our first year, the third largest program in the country.”
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“We ran into schools that were way too friendly to foreign adversaries and had connections to foreign adversaries.”
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“We also ran into schools that had hosted, had events and were way too friendly to terrorist organizations.”
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“Not a single dollar will go to an entity, a school, anything associated with a terrorist organization or foreign adversaries.”
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