Jasmine Crockett Questioned By Constituent About Impact Of DoE Cuts To Texas Schools

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At a tele-town hall, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) was asked about the impacts of DoE cuts to Texas schools.

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00:00And, Kendall, go ahead.

00:02Thanks, Congresswoman.

00:04We may have time for two more questions, but this next question comes from Coley.

00:11They ask, with school vouchers happening in Texas and the current administration trying to abolish the Department of Education,

00:20how are we going to make sure our children continue to receive adequate education?

00:25Ooh, child, this feels like an SAD question.

00:29You know, I don't have any good answers for this.

00:34I can tell you that your voices mattered last session down in Austin as it relates to the vouchers,

00:43and it really pissed off Governor Abbott because he decided to sink millions and millions of dollars into Republicans that voted against him.

00:54But they understood, even though they never stand up against him and make sure that we expand on Medicaid.

01:00And so rural hospitals are shutting down every single day.

01:03I don't know why they're not fighting for that.

01:06But nevertheless, a lot of people lost their seats.

01:10And so, you know, we're going to have to think smarter about this.

01:14If people live in a Republican district, then at least the Republican stands up and does the right thing on this.

01:20And then next thing you know, Abbott tries to put somebody else in.

01:24Then we may have to think long and hard about how we vote and, you know, whatever.

01:30So that's that part of it from a state perspective.

01:33So do not let up.

01:35You know, I think that James Tallarico is really kind of leading the way on this issue as a former public school teacher.

01:44He's very passionate about it.

01:45So I say make sure you're keeping up with updates from Rep Tallarico and make sure you're listening to any suggestions that he makes.

01:54So that's number one from a state level.

01:57From a federal level, again, you know, Department of Education, this is going to end up taking an act of Congress.

02:04But they are going through the dismantling of it.

02:07We know that 50% of those that are currently at Department of Education recently lost their job.

02:16But we are not only fighting in the court, because it's great to say I'm fighting, like I'm fighting in Congress.

02:22Can't say I'm really having a lot of wins in Congress, but I am fighting like hell in Congress.

02:27But when it comes to the court, we are not only fighting, but we're winning.

02:32And so with what just happened with the Department of Education only being semi-recent,

02:39I am looking really forward to seeing kind of what the courts say as it relates to Department of Education.

02:46But we do know that this is right out of the Project 2025 playbook.

02:51This is one of those things that we have talked about.

02:54And the other thing that's really dangerous that I need to address, for those that don't understand,

02:59is that when it comes down to being able to get a student loan and going through the FAFSA process,

03:05that all comes through Department of Education.

03:07So to me, this is like the next level of making sure that only the haves have access to education,

03:15kind of like the voucher scam that they're doing on the state level,

03:18where only people that even live in places with private schools have access to that, right?

03:26And we know that the private schools are able to say that certain people can't be allowed,

03:31but we know that the Supreme Court handed over their terrible affirmative action decision recently.

03:38We've seen the enrollment of people of color specifically going down in our higher education schools.

03:47And so I look at this as the only people in this country that will be afforded an opportunity

03:54at getting any level of education, it seems like, are going to be the privileged few.

03:59And that is in combination with what the state is doing as well as what's happening on the federal level.

04:05In addition to that, we know that there is funding as it relates to the school lunch program,

04:12whether it's the reduced lunch or free lunches.

04:14For our kiddos, that actually comes out of the Department of Education too.

04:18So in addition to kind of the general things that we're thinking about,

04:22the dismantling of access to education, this also is going to prohibit so many people from literally,

04:31so many kiddos from being able to eat.

04:33We also know that a lot of our funding for our students with disabilities,

04:38that also comes out of the Department of Education.

04:41And so that funding will cease if for some reason we don't have a Department of Education.

04:46And then we already know that DOJ specifically went in,

04:50and the first thing that they went out after was all of like the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Education.

04:59And so they deal with everything, all the civil rights violations.

05:03And so we know that our kids will have less protections overall in their schools because they've decided to dismantle this.

Jasmine Crockett Questioned By Constituent About Impact Of DoE Cuts To Texas Schools

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