Gina Hinojosa

What's the best thing we can do for our kids' education?

a great teacher in the classroom, right?

But to pay their teachers their worth, we have to treat them like professionals.

We just passed legislation I hated about two years ago to create this canned curriculum where teachers are timed, their lesson plans are sequenced and timed, and there's very little freedom for them to be the professionals that work

we expect them to be, where they assess, where are my kids?

How do I differentiate?

Where do I slow down?

Where do I press on the gas?

Like we're throwing that out the window.

It was an almost billion dollar bill, a big grift in my opinion.

But if we gave teachers the respect they deserve, treat them as the professionals and the pay, that's the single best improvement we can have in our classroom and smaller classes.

Right now, class sizes are too big in many of our schools, and that makes it harder just to teach these kids.

No, I do not.

With one exception that is already that already exists in federal law.

And a lot of people don't know about it.

There are some times when the child has some kind of disability where the public school cannot meet the need.

And federal law requires that the school district...

interview that family, understand those needs and help place that family in a private school and funding goes to that private school.

Usually the state will foot the bill for that.

Right.