They may prefer to talk about the need to reduce class size. They will maintain, as President Bill Clinton has told us, when it comes to improving education, we know what works. In fact, if we know anything about class size, it is that it has no correlation to educational attainment. Class sizes have been falling steadily since the 1950s, just as education attainment has been going south. It may be desirable to reduce class sizes.
Large classes are hard on teachers, and on many students.
The fact that most of that money will go to a teachers union that is the exclusive property of one political party tells us that there is a political reason for reducing pupil-teacher rations, but not an educational one. Or they may say, Our schools are falling apart. We need to bring them up to minimal physical standards. Again, it may be desirable to do so, but it won t improve test scores. The schools are in demonstrably better shape than they were back when you and I went to school.