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Thursday, June 6, 2019

Where Is Elizabeth Warren's Plan For K-12 Public Education?

Where Is Elizabeth Warren's Plan For K-12 Public Education?

Where Is Elizabeth Warren's Plan For K-12 Public Education?

Elizabeth Warren has plans.   
You can buy a t-shirt that says so. The New York Times says that her plans have helped her “gain ground,” which is another way of  saying that the press is finally giving her the kind of coverage she deserves and not relegating her to back bench status while they get all excited about Mayor Pete (that’s the back bench where much of the press also place Harris and Gilliland—can you guess what those candidates have in common).  
Go to her website and you can find plan after plan listed. Plans for new tax structure. Plans for ending voter suppression. Plans for fixing foreign policy. Even plans for more affordable college.  
But no plans for K-12 public education.  
Bernie Sanders has a plan. Joe Biden has sort of a plan. Kamala Harris has a proposal.  
But so far, Warren’s direct address of K-12 education consists of a promise to appoint a secretary of education who has been a teacher in a public school. She has also called Betsy DeVos the worst secretary of education ever. Beyond that, we don’t know what her plans for K-12 education might be.  
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