Well here in Illinois, Democrats hired more teachers so that we can have a better student teacher ratio all across the our state. In fact, We now have more teachers in Illinois than we've ever had in our history. We put $3 billion more every year into our public schools in Illinois. And you know the results of that. Illinois is 8th grade reading school. (13:21–13:25)
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Asserts that Illinois currently has more teachers than ever before in its history.
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