re: Don’t pay teachers to not teach!

quote:

---

fricking central offices man. If anyone wants to see what waste looks like in education, h

---

No doubt, but a ton of that waste is due to NCLB and the hoops admin have to jump through to comply with it and retain funding. So we wind up with a bazillion garbage data, instructional growth teacher, and curriculum related positions that are fairly worthless for actually improving student learning, and waste funds that could be used for classrooms and to hire more teachers to reduce class sizes.

Mind you, here in AZ a ton of the problem is also lack of spending on education in general(we've been in the 7000 thousand per student range for most of the last decade, either last or second to last every year, which is pathetic and over 4 thousand below the national average of 12k). In places that are above the national average waste is probably more of a larger portion of the problem.