While legislators in Texas are following the school choice money, the public likes their public schools and teachers and wants the legislature to spend more on the public schools. They want more money for teachers’ salaries.
http://news.texasschoolalliance.org/2019/01/21/texas-public-education-perceptions-poll/
Diane Ravitch's blog 
In this poll like many others, people seem to feel that their public schools and teachers are doing a decent job. Yet, they feel that other school districts may be worse. I think this perception may stem from all the negative publicity surrounding most urban districts. Those teachers are often working hard against insurmountable odds stacked against them, including poverty, large class sizes and diminished resources.
Texans in the poll objected to the high stakes STAAR test. Yet, the legislature continues to impose harsh penalties for opting out.
Most respondents did not seem to care about bilingual education. However, ESL is often classified under the umbrella of bilingual education. Perhaps the results would have been different if ESL had been separated from bilingual education. Also, it is likely that few second language parents were included in the sample of the survey.
92% of the respondents believe that when public funds are used for education, there needs to be oversight, accountability and transparency. Charter schools in Texas receive little monitoring. The legislature keeps sending public money to private companies with little oversight or accountability. I wish there had been a question on the impact on public schools about the loss of funds due to privatization.
it has been a painful but predictable fact over years of a ‘schools/teachers are bad’ school reform publicity push in our large city, that survey after survey has shown that while parents will adamantly stand up to support their own kids’ schools and their own kids’ teachers, they will just as adamantly point angry fingers at other districts and other teachers
The public wants “the legislature” to spend more money on education. Ok. Does the public itself want to spend more money on education?