McAuliffe launches campaign for gov. at Richmond public school, pledges $2B per year for education

Outside Richmond’s Miles Jerome Jones Elementary School during a chilly fall morning, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced he would seek another term, promising “big, bold” plans to rescue the state from its pandemic perils.

The first of those plans is anchored on education and McAuliffe announced it at a Richmond public school. He pledged to champion a $2 billion per year investment in education if elected governor, to boost teacher pay and address inequities.

“We need to finally tackle inequities in education and build the nation’s best workforce for the nation’s great job creators that I constantly try to recruit to come here to Virginia,” McAuliffe said.

“I’m going to dramatically increase teacher pay. We are going to ensure that every single student in Virginia is online. We are going to ensure that and expand that every 3- and 4-year-old child at risk here in Virginia gets preschool education.

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