William F. Goodling said "I just want to point out some interesting statistics. There are 16,000 school districts in the United States. If we say there are seven schools to each one of those school districts, that gives us about 112,000 schools. That gives us less than one teacher per school. Of course highly qualified was mentioned. California's great experience has been they spent $1 billion last year. They are going to spend $1.2 billion this year for their 23,000 teachers. Now what happened with those 23,000 teachers? Of course they could not get a lot of qualified teachers. So the poorer school districts who need the best teachers, what did they get? Totally unqualified people in the classroom. So I just wanted to point out that what we are talking about here when we talk about 100,000 for 16,000 school districts and 112,000 schools minimum, it is less than one per school." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMarch 10, 1999

I just want to point out some interesting statistics. There are 16,000 school districts in the United States. If we say there are seven schools to each one of those school districts, that gives us about 112,000 schools. That gives us less than one teacher per school. Of course highly qualified was mentioned. California's great experience has been they spent $1 billion last year. They are going to spend $1.2 billion this year for their 23,000 teachers. Now what happened with those 23,000 teachers? Of course they could not get a lot of qualified teachers. So the poorer school districts who need the best teachers, what did they get? Totally unqualified people in the classroom. So I just wanted to point out that what we are talking about here when we talk about 100,000 for 16,000 school districts and 112,000 schools minimum, it is less than one per school.

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William F. Goodling

Pennsylvania

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing teacher qualifications and funding in U.S. school districts.

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