Rep. Shirley Ringo, D-Moscow, asked state schools Supt. Tom Luna, "Do you have a notion whether countries such as China and India are having to lower their investment in education, or if they're in fact raising their investment?" Luna responded, "Korea made the distinct decision to raise class sizes considerably so that they could invest more money into their classrooms. The United States has one of the lowest class sizes in the world. Since the '70s, early '80s we have been on this goal of reducing class size, hoping it would have a positive impact on student achievement. We haven't seen that by any means." He added, "The United States spends more per child on education than the countries that outperform us, and we have smaller class sizes than the countries that outperform us. ... If we want to look at an international example, I think there's plenty of evidence. that slightly increasing our class sizes so that we can put more money into the system, stabilize the system, is a model they've used successfully."