Bernie Sanders Pledges To End No Child Left Behind, Shut Down For-Profit Prisons [View all]

[smokey nj]

Last night, Bernie Sanders did a series of events in New Hampshire, with the largest being in Portsmouth, where he spoke to 800 people at a local church.

Much of the territory he covered was the traditional Sanders spiel: raise taxes on the wealthy who have long dodged their tax responsibilities, make education and health care free, combat rising political and economic inequality.

But during the question and answer session he divulged from his normal territory and took on a few new areas: education, the prison industrial complex, and immigration, staking out left-wing positions that are bolder than any major party nominee in recent memory.

http://www.alternet.org/bernie-sanders-pledges-end-no-child-left-behind-shut-down-profit-prisons