Kamala Harris unveils $315 billion plan to boost teacher pay

The California Democrat's presidential campaign said the proposal would be paid for with unspecified changes to the estate tax.

In the first major policy rollout of her presidential campaign, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., unveiled a plan on Tuesday to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to boost teacher salaries.

Billed as "the largest investment in teachers in American history," the plan would devote $315 billion in federal funding over the next 10 years toward programs that would subsidize pay for public K-12 educators and reward state and local governments for...