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Georgia educator group endorses Abrams for governor

Democratic nominee for governor Stacey Abrams offers details of her health care plan outside Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta on Monday. ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM

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Sept 19, 2018

The Georgia Association of Educators, one of the state’s largest education groups, has endorsed Stacey Abrams in the governor’s race.

The association, which has about 30,000 members, scheduled a news conference Wednesday with Abrams at a school in East Atlanta to announce the endorsement.

The association said public education is at “a crossroads” in the state and “Georgia needs a true ‘public education’ governor to take the state where it belongs with regards to educating all of its children.”

Abrams, a Democrat, is battling Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican, in the race to become governor. Kemp is scheduled Wednesday afternoon to announce his school safety plan at an event in Buckhead.

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