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Ryan Walters: “Now across the country, our schools hire more non teachers…”

Featuring: Ryan Walters, Republican | Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction

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"Education spending problem has led to student proficiency decline."

Published | Video Starts at 00:22

It has gone to a bloat, administrative state. We see districts that have hired non teachers at record rates. Now across the country, our schools hire more non teachers than teachers. So something is fundamentally wrong when an education system that's built on, frankly, the premise of you have a student, you have a teacher and you have a parent. (00:22–00:28)

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Asserts that schools in the U.S. hire more non-teachers than teachers.

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