"Exactly What I've Hoped For": 100+ Education Leaders Voice Support for Sanders K-12 Plan

"No president or presidential candidate has offered a proposal so bold and sweeping."

, 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."

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,"

"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,"


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.

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