Randan Steinhauser, the National School Choice Director at Young Americans for Liberty, and Democratic Analyst Ed Espinoza discussed school vouchers in this legislative session.
An associate professor says not so fast. UT Austin Associate Professor David DeMatthews wrote a guest editorial Sunday in"The choice that vouchers present is a farce. No rational Texan wants to choose an education policy that does not deliver results and also defunds public education, promotes discrimination against children with disabilities, and uses tax dollars to subsidize tuition for wealthy families who already send their children to private schools.
Randan Steinhauser, the National School Choice Director at Young Americans for Liberty, and Democratic Analyst Ed Espinoza joined FOX 7 Austin's Mike Warren to discuss.Randan, beginning with you in that editorial, pretty harsh words for school choice advocates. How do you respond to that kind of criticism?Yeah. You know, it's just creating this false boogeyman of the idea of giving parents choice when it comes to how their children are educated is somehow bad.
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