The country needs School Choice and about 100,000 small private schools distributed everywhere. Education really isn’t hard and doesn’t have to be expansive. Get rid of government schools. They cost a boatload and they mostly fail to educate. Total scam.
Where does the money go? “A great chunk seems to wind up in administration,”
Code inspectors must have been right on the dole, I meant ball.
“the District may have paid fraudulent or inaccurate invoices.”
The District of Columbia has one of the worst-performing public school systems in the country
but
The National Education Association lists Washington, D.C., as offering the highest starting teacher salary in the nation.
Well ... isn't that special?
Where does the money go? “A great chunk seems to wind up in administration,”
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Administrators do not educate anyone and waste vast sums on inflated salaries and useless titles.
Many of those titles are unnecessary.
Some of the money is finding its way into the pockets of the politicians.
Is organizing protests all these teachers know how to do?
63 Million dollars did not buy working plumbing, because they had to first spend 62 Million buying politicians.
I got a great one at the plumbing wholesale for a buck and a half. Maybe I should send them the address.
They spend $63 million and then they can’t even come up with some Portapotties on the spur of the moment? Awesome.
They bought pensions not flush valves or faucets
Education bureaucracies are inefficient and wasteful. Too many paper pushers adding no value to the students in the classroom.
I once worked for a company that went through a value engineering process where activities that added value to the customer were identified and activities that added no value to the customer were identified. It was amazing the % of total cost that related to non-value added activity. The company then reengineered its processes to eliminate non value added activity. Costs and inventory declined, customer service improved, product quality improved, manufacturing throughput times were reduced and manufacturing capacity increased without any capital investment. Some downsizing occurred but many people in non-value added functions were reassigned to value enhancing activities. The company grew rapidly for the next four years until a new CEO came in with a new executive team, scrapped the lean processes, and built a new bureaucracy.
The US education system needs a complete purging and restructuring to eliminate bloated overhead structures and focus on the education of the children in the system. The child in a one room rural schoolhouse at the beginning of the 20th century, with a single instructor responsible for teaching multiple grades, had a better understanding of math, reading, writing, civics, and basic science than the average graduate of an urban high school today. The $300,000 per year superintendent of schools and his staff do not educate anyone.
The article almost hides this fact in its recitation of the numbers... 2/3 of $27,640 is $18,426...
DC spends $18,426... per pupil... on "non-instruction" expenses...
PER PUPIL...
When "typical" CA spend $5700 per pupil on instruction, and $5300 per pupil on non-insutruction...
That's an EXTRA $13,000... per pupil... that goes for... ???????
(On TOP of the $9000 per pupil for instruction, still tops in the nation...)
So pork barrel spending full of waste and graft connected to a school system didn’t deliver the desired out come? I am shocked!! Do I need a /s tag?
They should have busses at the school constantly shuttling he students to the administration building to use the facilities.
This is what you get whenever Black RATs get to run any kind of government enterprise. Washington DC is just one of any number of “shining examples” of the criminal element in Black Culture that evidences itself here in stealing money from the school “system.” It could just as easily be Baltimore, St. Louis, or Atlanta. And the kicker is that they have the temerity, after they’ve stolen the system blind and the school kids don’t have “ a pot to pee in or a window to throw it out,” to call the “problem” that they themselves have created the result of “white racism.”
Well, I would assume they have to pay well to get teachers to even think about working there. That would have to be considered hazardous duty pay.
This is all about taking advantage of the system. This is a racial issue.
And them poor teachers in; where is it?; have to have food stamps to survive...