2020 could become the year of the teacher. Democratic presidential candidates and operatives within their campaigns have stepped up their outreach to teachers' unions, hoping to seize on the energy that propelled nationwide teachers strikes.
After teachers in California, Kentucky, Oklahoma and a host of other states went on strike for a series of demands in 2018 and 2019, ranging from better pay to more support in the classroom, Democratic presidential candidates and operatives within their campaigns have stepped up their outreach to teachers' unions, hoping to seize on the energy that propelled nationwide teachers strikes.To do that, candidates are putting policy behind their push for support. Sen.
Zachary Viscidi works as a middle school social studies teacher by day and then drives a pedicab by night here in historic Charleston. His days often begin at 7 a.m., and sometimes he carts tourist from site to site until 2 a.m.Zachary Viscidi works two jobs: a middle school social studies teacher and a pedicab driver."This is a young man's game," said Viscidi, 31, pedaling past two other pedicab drivers who look to be in their early 20s.
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