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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/09/hillary-clinton-national-education-association_n_7545486.html
Hillary Clinton Sounds Off On Education Issues: 'We've Gotten Off Track In What We Test'
The Huffington Post | By Rebecca Klein
Posted: 06/09/2015 4:04 pm EDT Updated: 06/09/2015 5:59 pm EDT
In March, the NEA formally began considering who it would endorse in the 2016 presidential election. To jump-start this process, it sent all viable candidates from both major parties questionnaires about prominent education issues and hired organizers for states with early voting.
The interview comes a week after Clinton, along with fellow Democratic presidential candidates Gov. Martin O' Malley of Maryland and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), attended the executive council meeting of the American Federation of Teachers, the nation's other major teachers union.
During that meeting, Clinton emphasized her appreciation for teachers, saying, "It is just dead wrong to make teachers the scapegoats for all of society’s problems."
"I want to work with you to make sure we do what needs to be done based on evidence, not ideology. … And from what I’ve seen, all of the evidence, and my own personal experience, says that the most important and impactful thing we can do for our public schools is to recruit, support and retain the highest-quality educators," Clinton said, according to an excerpt of the meeting.
She continued: "Where I come from, teachers are the solution. And I strongly believe that unions are part of the solution, too."................
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