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Cass Ballenger: “I am willing to accept the President's proposal to hire 100,000 new teachers but the President must then agree to test…”

On the recordOctober 14, 1998
I am willing to accept the President's proposal to hire 100,000 new teachers but the President must then agree to test them for competence and he must also agree to discharge them for incompetence. Uh-oh, I am just guessing, but suddenly the President may not be so enthusiastic about his idea for 100,000 new teachers. The special interests who currently protect incompetent teachers at all costs would go ballistic and find a way to block the proposal. Suddenly the talk about education and the children would end because a proposal with more Federal dollars that demanded accountability for those dollars would be automatically unacceptable. So how many on the other side would be willing to take up my proposal?
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Cass Ballenger
North Carolina
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Discussing the President's proposal for hiring new teachers and the need for accountability in education.

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