Biden unveils education policy plan before teachers union
Associated PressHOUSTON — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden unveiled his first major policy proposal on Tuesday before one of the nation’s largest teachers unions. “There’s no debate about what needs to be done, about whether or not a child starting off in kindergarten or first grade is behind the eight ball,” he told more than 200 Houston-area teachers at a town hall meeting As part of his education plan, he also called for “rational” gun laws, saying it was not acceptable for gun violence to be a routine part of American life. Some of his Democratic rivals have critiqued the 1994 bill, while President Donald Trump, seeking to foment doubts among progressives about Biden, has taken to slamming Biden’s role in the law while touting his own enactment of bipartisan legislation easing federal sentencing rules. California Sen. Kamala Harris, a 2020 Democratic rival, said last month that her specific teacher-pay proposal would raise average teacher salaries by $13,500, roughly closing the gap between teachers and the average college graduate.
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