Opinion: Kamala Harris’s second big idea tells us why she’s a skilled candidate
Sen. Kamala D. Harris , a 2020 presidential candidate, greets supporters at the end of a rally at Texas Southern University in Houston on Saturday. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 24 at 12:00 PM As a matter of politics, it may be brilliant. Sen. Kamala D. Harris is rolling out her second big policy initiative . She proposes to close the “teacher pay gap.
Harris, a U.S. senator from California, plans to release more details of the plan next week, but she said her proposal will amount to the largest federal investment in teacher pay in American history. It was not immediately clear how much money Harris is calling to be diverted to educators’ pay or how the plan will be funded, but she told a packed gymnasium at Texas Southern University that the cost shouldn’t be the question.
As for the merits, we’ll wait to hear how much money Harris is talking about, the mechanism for delivering it and where the money is going to come from. There are arguments that this is a state issue, not a federal one . One can argue there are other ways to improve education. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has put out so many plans with so many specifics she risks diminishing the impact of any single one. Most of the other candidates haven’t put out anything concrete.
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