Kamala Harris Proposes Federal
Investment in Teacher's Pay Harris’s first proposed campaign
policy calls for a $13,500 pay increase
for the average American teacher. She detailed her plan,
billing it as the “largest federal
investment in teacher salaries in
the history of the U.S.” Under Harris’s administration,
local school districts would be
required to meet incentivized
baselines for teacher salaries. A failure to comply would result
in the loss of certain federal funds
from the Department of Education. Kamala Harris, via 'Fortune' The plan would cost more
than $300 billion over a 10-year
-period and would be funded by
increased estate taxes. The proposed change to estate
taxes would reverse the Trump
administration’s adjusted threshold
and close any loopholes. Over the past year, teacher strikes
have been abundant across the U.S. Harris’s plan highlighted
how low wages are harmful
for student education,
particularly racial minorities. Kamala Harris, via ‘The New York Times’