Bines proposals are the most comprehensive plans to have even chance of being enacted in at least a generation. It's been at least 30 or forty years since anything like this has gotten this close. But connor also says that the country can't afford the same salary mistakes that new york city made, where credential teachers pay varies widely.
President Biden wants to give Americans four more years of free school: two years of pre-K and two of community college. In a two-part series, Today, Explained’s Haleema Shah explores the challenges of expanding public education.
Today’s show was reported by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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