Re: here's something you don't see very often in San Francisco...

In article <g7z0g.12942$zf6.1970@fed1read08>, rphenry@xxxxxxxx
says...

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Frank,


Time to elect some new politicians into office, and certainly not the
tax'em kind of guys.

The spending goes for the taxing. You have to know/realize on what the
money is spend. As long as most of the money is well spend, tax is not
a real burden. Admit it ;)


And that's just the problem. One example out of hundreds: The per pupil
spending in California schools is well above $7,000/year. The unions and
others are constantly whining for more money, it's never enough. Then
someone did the math. $7,000 time 30 for a classroom is $210,000. The
teacher's salary with burden costs is about $50,000 on average, or let's
say $60,000. The reporter then asked "What happened to the remaining
$150,000? "Ahm, ahem, well, err, um, ...." Sure, some has to be spent on
buildings and stuff but by far not this much. Nobody really seems to know.

In any large organizattion, overhead can be 150% to 250% of direct salaries
to front-line employees (in this case, teachers). Overhead will include
principals and staffs at each scool, superintendent and district staff, bus
drivers and mechanics, custodians, lawn mowers, etc. In our local schools,
the food service is self-funding; that may not be the case everywhere.

It doesn't take a "large organization" for this to happen, though
with a student/teacher ratio of 11:1 *AND* teacher's aids (more
than one for every two classroom teachers) take your overhead ratio
down some. :-( OTOH, Vermont has 396 schools in 287 districts and
98K students (that's 380 students per district, folks). Figure the
wasted overhead there.

BTW, in 1999 there were 104K students so we're down 6% in
enrollment over seven years and each year the tax increase has been
at least 6%.

--
Keith
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