HOUSTON — Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced on Saturday her plan to use federal funds to boost teacher pay by an unprecedented level, the first policy roll-out of her campaign.

The California Democrat laid out her idea during a rally at Texas Southern University, a historic black institution in Houston, Texas. It was the senator’s second public event in the Lone Star State in as many days.

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