Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris is the junior Senator from the State of California. We are concerned to see billionaires at the forefront of the privatization movement on her contributor list.
2016
Direct Campaign Contributions
Kamala Harris for Senate received contributions from three prominent California education reform donors: Eli Broad, Reed Hastings and Laurene Powell Jobs. Harris also received a contribution from New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
PACs
PACs making independent expenditures on behalf of Kamala Harris did not receive significant contributions from prominent education reformers.
2016
As California Attorney General, Harris prosecuted online for-profit charter school , K-12.
2017
Senator Harris referenced Betsy DeVos’s opposition to oversight of Michigan’s charter school sector as one of her reasons for voting against her nomination.
2019
Senator Harris supported the Los Angeles teachers strike and stated that she is “particularly concerned with expansions of for-profit charter schools and believes all charter schools need transparency and accountability.” She has not moved beyond that stand, which is status quo, as yet.
Senator Harris referenced President Trump’s proposal to expand vouchers and Betsy DeVos’s support of that plan as part of her reason for voting against Devos’s nomination.
No known position on high stakes testing.
2018
Senator Kamala Harris threw her support behind pro-public education candidate Tony Thurmond in his race against charter school founder Marshall Tuck for California Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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