U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) is set to appear at an event this evening with Jon Huntsman, a Republican and former governor of Utah.
Many Americans are "exceedingly frustrated by the growing divide in our political parties and toxic political rhetoric from our elected leaders" and that our "political discourse is lacking engaged debates around common sense solutions to solve the pressing issues facing our nation," Manchin said in a written statement, according to The Hill.
Five former chairmen of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education wrote an op-ed criticizing both those willing to leave Massachusetts public education as it is and those who wish to abolish graduation requirements.
"It is troubling that education reform is threatened from a couple of different directions," Christopher Anderson, Maura Banta, James Peyser, Paul Reville, and Paul Sagan wrote in the Monday, July 17 edition of The Boston Globe.
