Bernard Sanders: “Given the dysfunctionality of the U.S. Congress, these are not insignificant steps forward.”

There is, in fact nothing more, nothing more important that we can do than provide a quality education to all of our young people.

Raising teacher salaries to at least 60,000 a year, and ensuring competitive pay for all of our teachers is one of the most important steps we can take to address the teacher shortage in America and to improve the quality of public…

This country does not survive unless we have the best education in the world for our kids, we're not going to compete economically.

Public school teachers should not be forced to work two or three jobs just to make ends meet.