With less than two weeks to go, the U.S. senate candidates are talking in more specifics about educating your children in Maine.One candidate revealed his education plan. Angus King says if elected, he has a plan to improve education in the country but his opponents aren't buying into it. The independent gathered former education officials to talk about what his plan in Portland. The former governor says education and economics go hand in hand and his plan focuses on teachers, innovation and parents.Using the acronym TIP, his opponents say it's a lot of hot air. King released his plan, at least in part, in response to a negative ad against him by American crossroads. That's a political action committee founded by republican activist Karl Rove. The ad claims king cut education funding while he was governor in Maine. That's a claim he and his supporters admittedly deny, and point to king's role in the Maine laptop initiative to give students of all economic backgrounds access to computers.
