HOUSTON, Texsas (ABC News) — Senator Bernie Sanders had a lot to say about education and student debt at Thursday night’s Democratic Candidate Debate.

Sanders said that under his administration that every teacher in American will make at least $60,000 a year.

“We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. And yet, we have the highest child poverty rate of almost any country on Earth,” he said. “We have teachers in this country who are leaving education because they can’t work two or three jobs to support themselves.”

“What we will also do, is not only have universal Pre-K, we will make public colleges and universities and HBCUs debt free,” he continued. “And what we will also do, because this is an incredible burden on millions and millions of young people who did nothing wrong except try to get the education they need, we are going to cancel all student debt in this country.”

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