Flanked by two former officeholders — one of them a Democrat — recall candidate Larry Elder made a pitch to Latino voters and focused on education and housing.
Flanked by two Latino former state officeholders — one of them a Democrat — Larry Elder made a pitch Wednesday for Latino support in this month’s recall election, touting his positions on education, housing prices and other issues.
Speaking at a video news conference for “media representing the Latino community,” Elder cited the endorsements of former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, a Republican, and onetime State Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, who also spoke. “I’m appealing to everybody, but I do believe that the impact of the poor quality of education disproportionately hurts Black and Brown people,” said Elder, 69. “And I think that’s one of the reasons that the majority of Hispanics … now support [the] recall.”
Elder, who is a Republican, spoke of his desire to implement school choice at a statewide level, saying “competition” was the only answer to breaking the power of teachers unions.He said a study, which he did not name, found that 5% of public school teachers “were incompetent.” He extrapolated those numbers for California public schools, which employed 319,000 teachers for the 2019-20 school year, according to the“That’s 15,000 incompetent public school teachers,” he said.
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