Lynn Davenport

Sharia compounds, which are areas governed by religious rules.

Right away.

Right.

And so I'll tell you, there are unintended consequences of these bills.

And I'm always pointing that out, is that we go to the legislature and try to pass these bills, and they grow teeth and hair and fangs, and they turn on us.

And so I don't think our solutions are through bills at the legislature.

That's actually how we got here with the problems in education, is through federal and state legislation, year over year, biennium over biennium.

And

You mentioned Eric Prince.

I'm kind of going to go off my talking points here.

But his sister, Betsy DeVos, she spent 30 years trying to push school choice in Michigan.

And then she became the ed secretary and she expanded the Department of Education.

And she was a major choice proponent.

And charters did not move the needle in Michigan.

They have not moved the needle in Texas.

But they've moved the needle, the financial needle, to Michigan.

line the pockets of these Islamic charter schools.

And so I get really frustrated because people don't think about these unintended consequences.

The solution I have is we have to repeal these bills that came before us, the charter school bills, which came in the 90s.

And then you have the voucher bill that just passed.