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Kamala Harris Plan Would Boost HBCU Funding
Senator Kamala Harris, a California Democrat and 2020 presidential contender, said on Tuesday that she would include new funding for historically black colleges as part of a plan to boost the salaries of American teachers by an average of $13,500.
As part of support for new recruitment and training of instructors, the Harris plan would direct new money to HBCUs and minority-serving institutions to address an underrepresentation of teachers of color.
The proposal, which was released on the Harris campaign's website, did not specify how much funding would go toward those colleges. The total cost of the teacher pay plan would be roughly $315 billion over 10 years, the campaign said.
Harris said at a campaign event over the weekend that the proposal would address a gap of 11 percent between pay for teachers and other college-educated professionals.
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Andrew Kreighbaum
Andrew Kreighbaum joins Inside Higher Ed as our federal policy reporter. Andrew comes to us from The Investigative Reporting Workshop. He received his master's in data journalism at the University of Missouri, and has interned at USA Today and a national journalism institute in Columbia, MO. Before getting his master's, Andrew spent three years covering government and education at local papers in El Paso, McAllen and Laredo, Texas. He graduated in 2010 from the University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in history and was news editor at The Daily Texan.
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