By Rachel Frizin at TheHill.com
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) on Saturday called for teachers to receive pay increases with a push to use federal funds to increase their pay.
Harris is scheduled to announce her proposal at a rally Saturday at Texas Southern University in Houston, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
The California Democrat shared the report on Twitter, adding that current teacher pay is “a national failure” and saying “it’s time we give America’s teachers a raise.”
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