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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There is nothing skilled about her at all IMO ,It is exaggerated,What a disgusting name that is as well

She’d be a great character on House of Cards

If you are a Democrat the liberal and biased media immediately loves you.

Jen Rubin is so stupid she couldn’t even keep up the facade of being the token “conservative” woman columnist at WaPo. literally had one job and she boned it. WaPo cant even hire a decent fake republican

What liberal Dem doesn't. They are one of the sole remaining powerful unions that votes Dem.

Giving each of the 3.2 million teachers in the U.S. a $15,000 raise would cost $48 billion. That is less than 7% of what we spend (and undoubtedly waste) on defense, which got more than $700 billion this year. SEVEN. PERCENT. Why would we NOT do this? Are we this stupid?

600 drug cases that she was prosecuting were thrown out because of her withholding crucial evidence. The majority of the 600 were black men.

Who needs skill? Community Organizer certificate is all you need.

She's the preferred candidate of the pro Israel Wall St. donor class.

Naturally: Dip into the treasury and buy off a constituency is not a new idea. Kamala has 14 competitors and rising in the Democrat party doing the same thing.

Teachers make 11% less than comparable public sector workers....because they get a spring break, a winter break, and summers off.

A blatant play to a large union group underscoring again the push of federal management of state education budgets already being funded by tax payers on a state level suggesting to be taxed at an *additional* federal level as if she herself is providing a gift to teachers.

Lol....gets the teachers vote for sure. But the 98% of the population that aren’t teachers will kinda resent the plan. After all they’ll be the ones paying for it...through local property taxes. Harris seems to be unaware that teachers are paid at a local level. Dope.

When will congress do their job and remove all illegals from our country. . $ 116bil per year it costs America. . what are they afraid of ?

I don't remember the first big idea

Hmmm will this liberal rag run any negative stories on liberal candidates or just puff pieces to excite a base. Smh.

Smart to go after a key voting demographic: our nation's educators🍎

According to Willow Brown she has skills

Kamala Harris a skilled candidate,what a joke.

Can you find Kamala Harris on a map?

She’s a vapid opportunist

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