There's a teacher shortage because of poor working conditions and poor pay, but rather than fix that they would rather broaden the worker pool.
That was a strange way to say lower their educator standards.
If people are stuck for 20% of their life in school we'd need 1 in 5 people to be teachers to tutor them one on one. In the US 1 in 100 people are a teacher which means that we have a student teacher ratio of 1:20.
Which is quite frankly terrible.
The only sane thing to do is to reduce the required schooling and improve it's quality. But that would mean we turn schools into places or learning instead of extended day care.
Knowing how to teach well, to 25+ students, is not something you can pick-up over a handful of years. Many don't even after their degrees. Even if a school sets a lesson plan that's "perfect", you'd still need someone to adapt and tailor that plan to the classroom, or to students with special needs.
Lowering education standards is an absolutely surefire way of hamstringing the future of a state or country.
You have 2 minutes per student in the average class. That hamstrings the future of a state or country more surely than having worse teachers.