I pleaded with the President, and I said, he can talk about class size reduction, but if he does not have a quality teacher to put in that new classroom, I will guarantee it does not matter whether the teacher-to-pupil ratio is 12 to 1, 20 to 1, 30 to 1, it is not going to make a difference. Of course, what was the first 33 percent we allowed him to have? More than 30 percent of those had no qualifications whatsoever.
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