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The School Staffing Surge: Decades of Employment Growth in America's Public Schools. Part II

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America's K-12 public education system has experienced tremendous historical growth in employment, according to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. Between fiscal year (FY) 1950 and FY 2009, the number of K-12 public school students in the United States increased by 96 percent, while the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) school employees grew 386 percent. Public schools grew staffing at a rate four times faster than the increase in students over that time period. Of those personnel, teachers' numbers increased 252 percent, while administrators and other non-teaching staff experienced growth of 702 percent, more than seven times the increase in students. That hiring pattern has persisted in more recent years as well. Between FY 1992 and FY 2009, the number of K-12 public school students nationwide grew 17 percent, while the number of FTE school employees increased 39 percent. Among school personnel, teachers' staffing numbers rose 32 percent, while administrators and other non-teaching staff experienced growth of 46 percent, 2.3 times greater than the increase in students over that 18-year period; the growth in the number of teachers was almost twice that of students.

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On a Per-Student Basis, School Staffing Levels Are Hitting All-Time Highs

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When the first Baby Boomers started attending public schools in the 1950s, a typical American school district employed about 58 workers for every 1,000 students enrolled. By the time Millennials like myself attended school in the 1990s, schools employed twice as many adults to serve the same number of students. In the 2020-21 school year, staffing levels hit all-time highs, and the typical public school district employed 135 people for every 1,000 students it served.

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It also decreases funds for the schools that need funding the most.

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They should cut admins then so more money could go to people that actually improve the schools

He should have retired after 2019. You could tell it was seriously deteriorating, but he was still functioning.

What they allowed him to do these past 5 years is nothing short of tragic in terms of how an entire generation now sees him.

I absolutely loved him on College Gameday for nearly 3 decades of me watching and absorbing college football.

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Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t our landscape pretty similar to Florida?

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I think our landscapes are pretty different. Our entire southern half/portion was made from the MS River deposition. What is Florida’s land mostly made from? I’m unaware of the rivers in FL

I know that I get my CFB breaking news from Collin freaking Cowherd

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2011 Iowa State 37, No. 2 Oklahoma State 31 in 2OT

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fricking cyclones man

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2012: No. 15 Texas A&M 29, No. 1 Alabama 24

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The week before this game happened, Alabama played LSU in Death Valley in what is still the greatest atmosphere I’ve ever been a part of. This is the first LSU game that SVP ever attended and waxed so poetically about.

LSU lost the game in Death Valley but then had another tough home game against a top 25 MS State and came out victorious. I remember listening to the LSU post game interview with Jarvis Landry after the State game and they asked him what he thought about Alabama aTm, and he went on some canned speech about how good Alabama was and how much he respected them etc….

The interviewer interrupted him and said “You didn’t hear? aTm upset Alabama”

There was a long pause, a deep exhale, and all Landry said was “Really? Are you serious?” You could tell he was absolutely pissed off that aTm got the glory despite LSU beating down Alabama to the point that aTm even had a chance.

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Les lost goodwill coming off a national title because he went 8-5 with backup qbs. Why would Heupel be immune?

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He did not lose an ounce of good will in 2008. He lost goodwill after he refused to adapt his offense to the modern game and rather squandered championship level defenses year after year with his whole “attack their strengths” approach.

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Oregon State regional.

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Always with these mother frickers. It’s like we are quantumly linked together

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surged 13 basis points

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Off topic, but why do business people use the term “basis points” instead of just saying the percents?

It went from 6.97% to 7.10%. Why the need to use basis points?

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I know it's fun to rag on the NCAA but I don't completely fault them for this shite we're in. Anytime they tried to enforce a rule that they had in place someone would sue them and some pantywaist judge would rule against them. Their legs were cut out from under them from being able to enforce anything. It's kinda hard to enforce the rules about paying players when you're just going to get told by a judge you're not allowed to do so.

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That’s because they kept trying to say/argue that they weren’t employees of the school. It’s awfully hard to limit the payment/earnings of people who aren’t your employees.

If the NCAA allowed schools to pay the players directly instead of requiring collectives, they could have used enforceable buyouts in contracts, effectively limiting transfers.

However, then we run into Title IX issues, which is the biggest crock of shite enforced on universities