CNN "State of the Union" interviews during 2019: on Education

Julian Castro: School curriculum should include climate change

CASTRO: I believe that it should. In fact, it's essential if we want to raise a generation of Americans that will do right by our planet, make the little decisions in life that are going to help ensure that we can get where we need to get to get to net zero. We need to end the system of people that get elected and then sit on a state-wide board that determines what is in curriculum. Too often right wing conservatives have taken over thes

Bernie Sanders: Save millennials by cancelling student debt

Bernie Sanders: Forgive student loans for both higher ed and trade school

Sanders: Our plan forgives massive amounts of student debt. Every place I go, you ask people about student debt, they're paying $50,000. If you go to graduate school, medical school, could be $300,000, $400,000. That is insane. Our plan will cancel a substantial amount of student debt and in some ways probably go further than Senator Warren's. And when we talk about higher education, not just college. There are a lot of young people who are not academically inclined who need to get trade skills.