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Kelly Hancock: “We want a successful Texas Educational Freedom Accounts to…”

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

Inside Texas Politics: Full interview with acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock

Published December 5, 2025 | Video Starts at 24:59

This is all online. It's all online. And so we're just trying to put all the data that we have out online. And so I want to be more accountable, more transparent. We want a successful Texas Educational Freedom Accounts to go. Our main function is providing that, you know, revenue estimates. You know, we start in January passing out the grants for immigration enforcement and working with that. (24:59–25:03)

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“The state's GDP continue to grow. We're the, as a state, eighth largest economy in the world, 2.7 trillion dollar GDP.”
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“Last year personal income, it grew 8.3% versus a slowdown in inflation.”
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“The legislative focus was on low income and special needs [students].”
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“We have. We're working with them, in fact, we're working with them on an event down in the border here.”
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“We've brought in a partner Odyssey, who has the experience. They're doing this in eight other states.”
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“I think we'll have a very large number, much more than half register with the state in this first year.”
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“We're allowing the flexibility in the funds to address some of those areas [like transportation].”
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“We are moving much more fast, faster than you expect government to move.”
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“We're pretty comfortable with the dates. We didn't want to put out dates that we didn't feel like we could hit.”
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“We're going to have not only the largest program in the nation, the best program in the nation.”
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“It's my responsibility to get the right partners to make sure we have the right plan and to make sure we execute properly.”
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“The public schools will have to supply that report showing that they meet the criteria to qualify just like they would in a public school…”
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“The TAA has sent out a letter of guidance on that.”
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“We're going to make sure these are all citizens as well.”
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“Parents have to prove that they're citizens.”
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“We're going to require fingerprinting. If you're going to have contact, whether online or in person with kids in the state of Texas, we're…”
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“We wanted a level playing field in the state of Texas. Look, we shouldn't be discriminating against anybody.”
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“The number that are hubs is very limited because it's race based and gender based.”
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“Our main purpose with your tax dollars is to make sure we get best value for the state.”
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“We've seen litigation change regarding DEI, which is really what we're talking about is a DEI program and it's changed significantly in the…”
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“We've seen President Trump recently at the federal level change those guidelines.”
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“We've seen from Governor Abbott issue statements to all agencies regarding DEI type criteria.”
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“We're following court cases, we're following, you know, President Trump's guidance, Governor Abbott's guidance on dei.”
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“Sales tax 5% a month, you know, over year, over year.”
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“In Texas, we have a surplus. We have, we're meeting our revenue estimates.”
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“The inflation in the state of Texas has slowed down.”
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“Within the first 30 days, we, we signed off a new financial system.”
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“We've launched Tech Stats, which allows us to be more transparent and kind of accountable.”
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“We start in January passing out the grants for immigration enforcement.”
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“I was appointed to the Texas Doge Texas Regulatory and Efficiency Organization there that Governor Abbott appointed me to that position.”
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“The governor asked me to resign my senate seat and come and run the organization.”
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“I've not lost any Democrat. I've not given up a Republican's district to a Democrat.”
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“With the team we put together, we've always overperformed in a race.”
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