Chalkbeat -Walz is the first K-12 teacher to appear on a major party ticket in over 50 years, and teachers across the country say they recognize in him traits that are forged in the classroom. These include making sure his message is easy to understand, speaking from the heart (and not the teleprompter), and understanding why marginalized students need educators to be allies. They hope his nuanced understanding of what it’s really like to work in a public school — often under challenging conditions for low pay — will shape the policies he champions.
Political observers, meanwhile, say Walz represents a chance for Democrats to embrace a positive vision of public schools and the teaching profession, after several years in which conservatives claiming to represent parents’ rights have largely driven education politics. Read more about what teachers told us, and our analysis of how Walz’s classroom teaching experience could shake up education politics.
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