Labor Department counts 271,020 K-12 “education administrators,” with an average wage of more than $100,000 a year
School Year School District Administrative Staff Principals and Assistant Principals Teachers Fall 2000 97,270 141,792 2,941,461 Fall 2017 170,158 189,155 3,169,750 Increase 74.9 percent 33.4 percent 7.7 percent
Moreover, none of these administrative staffing figures include the growing administrative burden on existing teaching staff. Special education teachers, for instance, spend more time each week on paperwork than they do on grading papers, communicating with parents, sharing expertise with colleagues, supervising paraprofessionals, and attending Individualized Education Plan meetings combined, according to a study conducted in 2006.
As we see, more money for education means more money for bureaucrats. Get rid of them and we have YUUGE $$$avings!
“education administrators,” with an average wage of more than $100,000 a year
They're toxic. I kid you not there's a medium probability that I'll punch our superintendent soon. He has a high school age kid in the district and is blatantly making decisions for his child on the taxpayer dime. Can't go into details because it's searchable news, but he's under investigation. Because of me. lol. I want to take him down, but I'm finding that even local journalist are lazy. County prosecutor is investigating though, so that's good.
Administration tends to be a bloated parasite class of nepots in feifdoms that do fuck-all toward educating kids. They are plum political assignments, and those in power seem to prefer a chance to fill those with their own nepots rather than reform the system.
I was in grade school when Prop 13 passed. The effect on school budgets was immediate and electric. Suddenly teachers had to grub for every basic-ass supply like a piece of paper or a stick of chalk. Extras like construction paper and glue, forget it. For almost 2 full years we heard over and over, we don't get that thing we used to take for granted because of Prop 13. As an adult looking back, I realize they left the nepots in place and immediately cut funding to supplies and "low level" staff for the actual students.
Coworker has a wife who was in school admin. Easiest job, plenty of time off, nice salary and early retirement after many bouts of time off for “injuries.” Yuuuuge scam. They didn’t need her when she was off all those times for health issues. They never needed her. But boy did the taxpayers pay for her!
Labor Department counts 271,020 K-12 “education administrators,” with an average wage of more than $100,000 a year
School Year School District Administrative Staff Principals and Assistant Principals Teachers
Fall 2000 97,270 141,792 2,941,461
Fall 2017 170,158 189,155 3,169,750
Increase 74.9 percent 33.4 percent 7.7 percent
Moreover, none of these administrative staffing figures include the growing administrative burden on existing teaching staff. Special education teachers, for instance, spend more time each week on paperwork than they do on grading papers, communicating with parents, sharing expertise with colleagues, supervising paraprofessionals, and attending Individualized Education Plan meetings combined, according to a study conducted in 2006.
As we see, more money for education means more money for bureaucrats. Get rid of them and we have YUUGE $$$avings!