My plan would recruit an army of new teachers, pay those teachers better. (Applause.) I want to hire more teachers in areas like math and science.

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So, like many teachers across America, I was disappointed and worried about my future when my contract was not renewed.

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Now, teachers like Kim are why I came here today.

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Would being a father mean I would have to abandon my writing, or could I, like many of my white friends and teachers who were writers, simply depend on my wife to support me and our child while I continued to write novels and poetry?

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"But beyond the parents, I'm not sure that we shouldn't treat teachers" like police and firefighters whose records are prohibited from release.

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Teachers oppose other reforms, like high-stakes testing, that I think are bad ideas.

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