While the total enrollment of public elementary and secondary schools in Sondland is one percent higher this academic year than last academic year, the number of teachers there increased by three percent. Thus, the Sondland Education Commission' s prediction of a teacher shortage as early as next academic year is unfounded. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the claim that the prediction of a teacher shortage as early as next academic year is unfounded?
A: Because of reductions in funding, the number of students enrolling in teacher-training programs in Sondland is expected to decline beginning in the next academic year.
B: Funding for public elementary schools in Sondland is expected to increase over the next ten years.
C: A new law has mandated that there be ten percent more teachers per pupil in Sondland's public schools next academic year than there were this academic year.
D: Average salaries for Sondland's teachers increased at the rate of inflation from last academic year to this academic year.
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
C