Texas Republicans are trying to sell school choice measures, but rural conservatives aren’t buying

Cactus Elementary School in Cactus on Jan. 28, 2020. (Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune)

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As a Texas school superintendent, Adrain Johnson is no stranger to the struggles small, rural public schools face, from trying to recruit teachers, especially after more than two years of navigating school during a global pandemic, to a general lack of resources. And now, after the school shooting in Uvalde, there’s a renewed conversation about campus security.