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

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:45:01 -0400, Keith <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3Uy0g.47899$_S7.20142@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[snip]

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%.

As long as there are Democrats supporting the NEA you will never (1)
control costs, (2) have your kids meaningfully educated.

But some day there will be vouchers and the whole game will change.

...Jim Thompson
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