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Nate Schatzline: “School choice is returning what belongs to the taxpayer so…”

Featuring: Nate Schatzline, Republican | Texas House of Representatives, District 93

Parent Empowerment with Mandy Drogin Representative Nate Schatzline, HD 93

Published February 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 08:03

You know, like that's, that's scary. And so, and I think it's important to classify that. School choice is not some government handout. In fact, School choice is returning what belongs to the taxpayer so that they can make the choice. It's actually the opposite of a government handout. It's saying we, we trust you more than you trust us, so we're going to put it back in your hands. (08:03–08:09)

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Asserts that school choice involves returning taxpayer money to allow parental choice in education.

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“We saw not just woke indoctrination, but truly a lack of quality in some of our ISDs.”
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“We also have some really struggling ISDs that focus more on things that don't matter and shouldn't be in there, like political…”
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“In 2020, they said, your child has to be vaccinated to go to this school.”
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“We're talking about sexual education at the age of 5. Explicit visual images for 5 year olds.”
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“Over 60% of parents, whether in the Republican Party or in the Democrat party support school choice.”
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“Even homeschoolers, we see over 70% of homeschoolers consistently support school choice.”
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“HB3, I can confidently say now that it's been filed is the largest introduction to school choice in the United States history.”
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“We can definitively, no questions asked, say absolutely not [to government control over homeschool curriculum].”
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“There are three categories of education now: traditional public school families, traditional private and homeschool families, and ESA…”
Parent Empowerment with Mandy Drogin Representative Nate Schatzline, HD 93 | Uploaded February 21, 2025 | 10:10-10:17
“The ESA recipients being introduced into the state of Texas is a sign that we're moving in the direction of giving parents the final say.”
Parent Empowerment with Mandy Drogin Representative Nate Schatzline, HD 93 | Uploaded February 21, 2025 | 10:17-10:25
“The only accountability that these funds will have is I want to make sure you're using this money to educate your child.”
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“Private schools will have the choice if they want to participate in the ESA program.”
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“The qualification to participate is that you are an accredited private school.”
Parent Empowerment with Mandy Drogin Representative Nate Schatzline, HD 93 | Uploaded February 21, 2025 | 13:25-13:31
“I don't know of a private school that's not already accredited [in my district].”
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“We have reading rates below 20% at the third grade level, math ratings at 22% at the third grade.”
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“Out of 32 states. And I think it was 72 programs within the 32 states. Out of all of those we have seen, get this, an increase in…”
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“There has not been one additional regulation placed on a traditional homeschool family after school choices passed in the last 50 years.”
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“We've got the head of the House Democrat caucus in the Texas House who sends his kids to private school but doesn't want you to be able to…”
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“The legislature could right now take away every right. We saw this in Oregon. Oregon did this.”
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“In every state, that's never happened. And additionally, there have been many states where the freedoms of traditional homeschool families…”
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“I was reviewing the Texas Homeschool Coalition study this morning before I came on.”
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“We are not defunding public education.”
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“We are not privatizing public education and we are not making public private education.”
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“They're going to maintain a single entity with the same rights that they had before.”
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“Private schools can be an ESA recipient and they can also set their own conduct standards that will not be touched by government overreach.”
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“We're not going to touch your curriculum, we're not going to touch the behavioral standards you have. We're not going to touch your…”
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“We're not going to touch your hiring and firing standards.”
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“This is the strongest language out of any state I have ever seen to protect private and homeschools.”
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“My tax dollars are funding their religious indoctrination every day.”
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“It's funding trans flags being hung in the classroom.”
Parent Empowerment with Mandy Drogin Representative Nate Schatzline, HD 93 | Uploaded February 21, 2025 | 31:00-31:04
“It's funding social transitioning of children which will eventually lead to the mutilation of their bodies prematurely.”
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“We have public schools in Texas right now that are teaching children that because of the color of their skin, they'll never have the…”
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“President Donald Trump has declared war on WOKE and DEI policies in the military and all these institutions.”
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“I've now filed bills for to take DI out of county governments, city governments, and K through 12 education.”
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“My legislative director went to a school in Fort Worth ISD, and he publicly has put this out on Twitter where he was a part of a program…”
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“This bill not only does not take away the rights of traditional homeschool and private school families, this bill actually qualifies…”
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“We are actually going to pass, and we are going to pass school choice to empower every parent.”
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“This is not a partisan bill.”
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“This is a loyalty vote to your constituents.”
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