If elected president, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota wants a federal funding match to increase teacher salaries, while Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee plans on enlisting the US Education Department to help fight climate change.
The two Democratic presidential hopefuls unveiled their education proposals Friday ahead of their appearances at the National Education Association presidential forum in Houston. Both plans seek to roll back some of the Trump administration's education policies.Klobuchar's proposal would end the Trump administration's push for a school choice tax credit, which critics say would siphon funds from public schools.
He supports giving federal funds to districts that switch to zero-emission buses and investing in climate change education and STEM programs at K-12 schools and historically black colleges and universities.Like Klobuchar, Inslee wants to ban the use of federal funds to arm teachers or for firearms training -- taking the opposite approach of the Trump administration.
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