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Mitt Romney was pressed on his position that smaller class sizes don't necessarily result in better educational outcomes during a roundtable discussion with teachers in Philadelphia Tuesday, but the former Massachusetts governor maintained that studies didn't prove out a correlation between the two.

"I came into office and talked to people and said, 'What can we do to improve our schools?' " Romney said, according to CNN. "And a number of folks said we need smaller classroom sizes, that will make the biggest difference."

But Romney said some of the schools with the smallest class sizes were among the worst-performing schools in the state.

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