Mary Gonzalez: “None of my school districts in my district would tell me…”

“So this is meant to give you the whole picture. I think what I'm struggling with is if I were to go to my school district and say, you're getting $15,503 per student, None of my school districts in my district would tell me [they're getting $15,503 per student]. that. I am familiar with this. As a former school board member myself, I would see budget presentations in Dallas and they would say that our budget was, say, $1.1 billion.” (01:44–01:48)

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