In the first major policy rollout of her presidential campaign, Kamala Harris has unveiled a plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to boost teacher salaries.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at a presidential campaign rally at Texas Southern University in Houston on March 23, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — In the first major policy rollout of her presidential campaign, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., unveiled a plan on Tuesday to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to boost teacher salaries.
Harris previewed the plan in a speech at Texas Southern University over the weekend in which she said greater school funding was needed"to bridge the gap between helplessness and hope," repeating a quote by President Lyndon B. Johnson upon his signing of legislation to expand aid to impoverished schools.
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