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In later interviews, Sanders described himself as a mediocre college student because the classroom was "boring and irrelevant", and said he viewed community activism as more important to his education.
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Born in 1941, politician Bernie Sanders started out his political career as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, serving four terms as the leader of the state's biggest city from 1981 to 1989. He then moved on to the national political arena by winning a seat in the House of Representatives, distinguishing himself as one of the country's few independe...
Independent politician Bernie Sanders was born on September 8, 1941, in New York. He grew up in Brooklyn as the youngest of two sons of Jewish immigrants from Poland. His father worked as a paint salesman. As part of a struggling working-class family, Sanders recognized early on America's economic disparity. As he told the Guardiannewspaper, "I saw...
In the 1970s, Sanders made several unsuccessful bids for public office as a member of the anti-war Liberty Union Party, before he left the group in 1979. His first taste of political victory came by the thinnest of margins. In 1981, he was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, by only 12 votes. Sanders was able to achieve this win with the support ...
Sanders sought to switch to the Senate in 2006, running against Republican businessman Richard Tarrant. He managed to win despite his opponent's significant advantage in funding: Tarrant spent $7 million of his own personal wealth in this election battle. In 2010, Sanders made the news with his more than eight-hour-long filibuster against the exten...
In April 2015, Sanders announced that he was seeking the presidential nomination for the Democratic Party. This longtime independent made the party switch largely out of political necessity. "It would require an enormous amount of time, energy and money just to get on the ballot in 50 states" as an independent, he said to USA Today. "It made a lot ...
One of the trademarks that defined Sanders' campaign was his call for a "political revolution," which asked for everyday citizens to become active in the political process and be the change they wanted to see on any given issue. The other trademark was his fight to take corporate money out of politics, specifically, overturning the Citizens United ...
Staying true to his principles, Sanders relied almost solely on small individual donations rather than Super PACs to run his presidential primary race. To the surprise of many and admittedly, to Sanders himself, he made an unprecedented mark on campaign fundraising in American politics. In December 2015, Time magazine wrote, "Bernie Sanders has bro...
Sanders' Michigan primary victory in March 2016 is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in modern political history. He won 50 to 48, despite late polls showing he was trailing Clinton at least 20 percentage points. The only time such an egregious polling error was recorded came during the 1984 Democratic primary, when polls showed Walter Mo...
Also in March, Sanders won the Democrats Abroad international primary by 69 percent. Over 34,000 American citizens cast their votes in 38 countries, with 13 delegates for the taking. Sanders made more headlines as the first presidential candidate — and the only Jewish one — in the 2016 race to abstain from attending the AIPAC conference, an annual ...
Sanders made history as the only presidential candidate ever to be invited to the Vatican to speak on moral, environmental and economic issues. Amid a contentious New York primary, Sanders flew out for a brief visit to a conference on social sciences in Rome in April 2016. Sanders and Pope Franciswere often cited as carrying similar moral anthems i...
Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, Sanders attended James Madison High School, Brooklyn College and the University of Chicago. After graduating in 1964, he moved to Vermont. In 1981, he was elected (by 10 votes) to the first of four terms as mayor of Burlington.
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- Combating Racial Discrimination and School Segregation. 65 years after Brown v. Board of Education, many U.S. schools remain unacceptably segregated. Some 300 school districts are currently under desegregation orders and the Supreme Court has curtailed the government’s power to address them.
- End the Unaccountable Profit-Motive of Charter Schools. Recognizing the problems in a one-size-fits-all model of education, teachers’ unions and parent activists established alternative, experimental “charter” schools to better serve kids struggling within the traditional system.
- Equitable Funding for Public Schools. In America today, most school districts are funded out of local property tax revenue, resulting in unconscionable inequalities.
- Strengthen the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Over 40 years ago, the federal government made a promise to school districts around the country to fund 40 percent of the cost of special education.
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Nov 3, 2015 · Bernie Sanders was known to teammates as a talented — and sometimes selfless — runner at James Madison High School in Brooklyn. Courtesy Lou Howort. Bernie Sanders' athletic strength in...
Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, Sanders attended James Madison High School, Brooklyn College and the University of Chicago. After graduating in 1964, he moved to Vermont. In 1981, he was elected (by 10 votes) to the first of four terms as mayor of Burlington.
Guarantee tuition and debt-free public colleges, universities, HBCUs, Minority Serving Institutions and trade-schools to all. Cancel all student loan debt for the some 45 million Americans who owe about $1.6 trillion and place a cap on student loan interest rates going forward at 1.88 percent. Invest $1.3 billion every year in private, non ...