re: Interesting article about the shrinking public schools in Louisiana

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you can force people to frick more

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Don’t threaten me with a good time.

I posted a ton of statistics during the St. George debate.

In EBR since 2021:

Administrator pay has rose 17.2% while teacher pay has only rose 5%, much of that from state mandated raises rather than local district-funded increases. Specific roles like directors and coordinators rose 20%.

•The average budget allocation for admins is 2.3 times higher than the allocation for a classroom teacher. Total annual expenditures for admins grew 12.8%.

•The admin to teacher ratio is 1:14 meanwhile the teacher to student ratio is 1:19.

• In the last decade Admin positions have increased 14.7% while teaching positions have decreased 13.3%.

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The other thing to look at is administrative pay. The salary and benefits of some Superintendents can be a little excessive

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It's not one superintendent, it's the TAs you need for the SPED kids wearing earmuffs, the curriculum coordinators for the SPED kids, the multiple counselors in the high school that don't bother to talk about how to apply for college to kids, etc.

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It's not one superintendent, it's the TAs you need for the SPED kids wearing earmuffs, the curriculum coordinators for the SPED kids, the multiple counselors in the high school that don't bother to talk about how to apply for college to kids, etc.

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Not only those positions, but how about the multiple levels of staff at the district level that are on the payroll just distributing or managing federal grants.

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I posted a ton of statistics during the St. George debate.

In EBR since 2021:

Administrator pay has rose 17.2% while teacher pay has only rose 5%, much of that from state mandated raises rather than local district-funded increases. Specific roles like directors and coordinators rose 20%.

•The average budget allocation for admins is 2.3 times higher than the allocation for a classroom teacher. Total annual expenditures for admins grew 12.8%.

•The admin to teacher ratio is 1:14 meanwhile the teacher to student ratio is 1:19.

• In the last decade Admin positions have increased 14.7% while teaching positions have decreased 13.3%.

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With the way it turned out, I started looking into it more. The disturbing thing to me is EBRP School District will have $840 million for the coming year with about 42,000 students. That's $20,000 per student. Central and Zachary do it for $14,000 to $15,000. What's EBRP's excuse?

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In general private school enrollment has been in decline for years.

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Any link for that data?

It may be anecdotal, but private schools in Houston have been growing for over a decade, both in enrollment and in the number of campuses. Most have waitlists now.

What were the student:teacher ratios before and what are they now? These numbers don't tell us a whole lot in a vacuum.

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My mother (RIP) was a retired educator and taught at all levels, even college. She said if you put all the money the school board wastes in the classroom you would see better results in student grades.

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Throwing more money at public school classrooms is like throwing money into a burn barrel.

Teachers want a raise? How about pushing their administration to ‘right-size’ the employee numbers and if would free up a bunch of labor dollars that could go towards the teachers that are worth a shite and deserve a raise.