Eliot Engel: “We need to hire 100,000 new teachers. We want to get our schools' classes down in size so there are no more than 18…”

“We need to hire 100,000 new teachers. We want to get our schools' classes down in size so there are no more than 18 students per class. We will need to build new schools, hire 100,000 teachers and fix and repair crumbling school buildings. There is nothing more important to the future of this Nation than to get our class sizes down. Any parent knows that the less children there are in a classroom the more the children can learn and get personalized attention. So I support this instruction for conferees. I think we should move in a bipartisan fashion to fund our schools, and I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this. Again, we need 100,000 teachers, we need to build new schools, and fix and repair crumbling school buildings.”