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Bernie Sanders Unveils 'A Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education'

More than 100 national education leaders are publicly backing 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders' plan to reform the American school system, his campaign announced Tuesday.

Unveiled in May, the Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education calls for "a transformative investment in our children, our teachers, and our schools, and a fundamental re-thinking of the unjust and inequitable funding of our public education system."

"No president or presidential candidate has offered a proposal so bold and sweeping, which directly addresses the fiscal starving of American public education at the same time that the federal government got into the business of regulating, mandating, and controlling the nation's schools and classrooms," declared Diane Ravitch, former U.S. assistant secretary of education and research professor at New York University.

Sanders aims to address "the serious crisis in our education system by reducing racial and economic segregation in our public school system, attracting the best and the brightest educational professionals to teach in our classrooms, and reestablishing a positive learning environment for students in our K-12 schools," according to his campaign.

"Bernie's strong and ethical education platform is exactly what I've hoped for," Jonathan Kozol, a National Book Award recipient and activist for public schools and racial equality, said Tuesday. "His courageous and unqualified support for racial integration of our public schools sets him apart from the timid and equivocating centrists who have put unprincipled consensus ahead of social justice in the primary campaigns."




The White House hopeful's public education proposal has 10 key goals:

  1. Combating Racial Discrimination and School Segregation
  2. End the Unaccountable Profit-Motive of Charter Schools
  3. Equitable Funding for Public Schools
  4. Strengthen the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
  5. Give Teachers a Much-Deserved Raise and Empower them to Teach
  6. Expand After-School/Summer Education Programs
  7. Universal School Meals
  8. Community Schools
  9. School Infrastructure
  10. Make Schools a Safe and Inclusive Place for All
Part of Sanders' education plan includes banning new for-profit charter schools. As Common Dreams reported earlier this year, he was the first candidate in the Democratic primary race to take that position.

"Ninety percent of parents in this country send their kids to public schools, and they want those public schools to be a top priority," Randi Weingarten, president of American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and another backer of Sanders' plan, said Tuesday. "That's why Sen. Sanders' plan to invest in public schools and provide real accountability over private alternatives is vitally important."

Weingarten, Ravitch, and Kozol were joined by dozens of other education leaders, union organizers, school reform groups, and college professors who endorsed Sanders' platform—as students and educators across the country kick off a new school year.

Other supporters of the plan included Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT; Abdul El-Sayed, former executive director of the Detroit Health Department; Adolph Reed Jr., professor emeritus of political science the the University of Pennsylvania; Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research; and Cornel West, professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
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Clutch Robinson said:
I really think he needs to highlight his Civil Rights involvement to pull folks in. I don't understand why his team is downplaying that so much
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Because the second he does, they'll ask "and what have you done since then?" Then someone will point out, "oh yeah you voted for the 1994 Crime Bill, even though you knew it was bad for us". It's a lose-lose situation. He'll look worse than Biden, because he's trying to gain support on someone else's name recognition. He'll look worse than Clinton for supporting (by vote) a law that mass incarcerated 1000s of black people for over 20 years.

It's best if he just continues to talk about laws that help black people now and in the future. And leaves the past in the past.
 
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Bernie Sanders’s Enduring Appeal to the Youth Vote in Iowa

"Iowans under the age of twenty-five have donated more to Sanders than to Biden, Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, and Andrew Yang combined."
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In the 2018 midterms, a higher percentage of Iowa’s young voters turned out than in any midterm election since 2002—about forty per cent of registered voters participated, according to the Iowa Secretary of State’s office—but voters over the age of sixty-five attended the polls at almost twice that level.
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If Bernie can get a slight increase in under 30/lower income turnout :blessed:
 
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Clutch Robinson said:
I'm excited for Thursday.

It's great that Bernie has become more of a household name than around this time in 2015. I really think he needs to highlight his Civil Rights involvement to pull folks in. I don't understand why his team is downplaying that so much
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to be fair he got booed for mentioning it at that centrist she the people event
 
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