Ryan Walters: “Excellence isn't rewarded. We'd have merit pay for teachers.”

“We've got teachers unions that run basically a Marxist system inside our schools that doesn't value those growth perspectives in academics. We've got to get back to the basics. That's a fundamental problem in our education system. Excellence isn't rewarded. We'd have merit pay for teachers. We'd have school choice universally across the country. Those are things that help drive academic performance. But again, there is absolutely a problem with cell phones and social media.” (00:57–01:01)

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