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My name is Mike Cortese. I’m running for Congress in Tennessee and want to share an opinion that might be a bit controversial to career politicians nowadays:
Our schools shouldn’t be seen as just a talking point or a photo op. These institutions should be seen for what they are: actual human beings sitting in classrooms across Tennessee’s 4th District every single day, trying to get an education in a system that has been underfunded, undermined, and politicized beyond recognition.
So, I’m running to make sure every child in Tennessee’s 4th District and beyond receives a fully funded classroom, a supported teacher, and a real shot at the future. That is not a radical idea. It is the bare minimum. And I will fight for it every single day in Washington.
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Teachers are leaving the profession in record numbers because they are asked to do everything and given nothing. Classrooms are overcrowded. School counselors are stretched impossibly thin. And the politicians who gutted public education funding are the same ones standing in front of cameras talking about the importance of family values.
Scott DesJarlais has been in Congress for 14 years. In that time, he has done nothing but vote against education funding while sending his own party’s donors to profit from voucher programs that drain resources from the schools that need them most.
I have two boys of my own, and I know that as they grow, they’ll need a proper education. I know what our families need because I’m no career politician, and my families are living through the exact same circumstances.
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