ground in texas schools. how do you reform that? how do you change that and rectify that with parents that are against teachings of race in schools? i say let s get more parents involved. my wife amy and i are very involved in the children s schools. we meet with the teachers. we go to the board meetings. i want more parents doing that right now and i want to in addition to feedback that we support the teachers and public school educators. yes with higher pay and the respect they deserve given the public service they provide for the state and the kids who are the future of texas right now. pampts are focused on kids reading at grade level.
mandates. the rules were issued on friday when it does say is that schools must give students option to opt out of these school mask mandates. so what we have seen just this past weekend is school districts. the largest school districts in this state issuing mask mandates and allowing pampts to opt out. that s what happened here. same in hillsborough county. that s in the tampa carat. we just got the numbers from the district. 18,000 students have opt ud out. this is happening right now in broward county. school board members there are debating. they are trying to figure out if students will be wearing masks or not. if it will be mandatory or not. here s what s happening outside. take a listen. are you going to bully him into wearing a mask? we lo our state.
a solution to daca. i think that is more likely in january. you will also have our budget in february. and what about the infrastructure plan. that will be coming. i think that you will see that in the january time frame. i think that will be a part of congress in 2018. and in the wake of the terrible derailment in washington, but his budget request slashes by 13%. that is not hard to square. i think the reality is that amtrak is a program that high school has continued to lose money. you can t say here is one piece. the president knows we need to rebuild the roads and ampts. airports. that is separate from saying amtrak has been a struggling program that taxpayers has been becaming out for years. so why continue to funnel anymore money into that program. why did he tie a new infrastructure to this deadly amtrakderailment? why did he tie the two together?
charging with him resisting arift, disorderly conduct and aggravated assault on a officer and canine. he needed 200 stitches to close his wounds. i walked into the room, and he was stackled to the bed by his feet. he was it looked like he was in shock. he was bleeding and oozing everywhere. worse thing a parent could experience. reporter: then his pampts saw the surveillance tape of what happened. i actually went home and got sick. it was really, really terrible. reporter: they re suing the atlantic city police department as well as the city. i think it s countryu one of the most agreous examples of police brew tailty that i have ever seen. reporter: it shows that the canine officer involved had 15 prior complaints related to