The answer to where the money is going is simple: ADMINISTRATION.
My wife’s middle school has 3 bureaucrat layers between her and the principal.
HISD (Houston Independent School District) has 3.7 additional employees per classrom teacher.
Administrators are frequently doctorates (in education) and are compensated accordingly - yet many have trouble finding their rear ends with both hands.
Conduct a wholesale firing on non-teaching personnel and you’ll quickly find out where the dough is going. And generate a huge surplus to boot.
Exactly. I knew the answer, as did you, after the first sentence!
My wife works as a teacher aide (we never needed aides when I went to school!) here in Florida and we have so many bureaucrats in the schools and over at the admin buildings (yes, buildingS), it's ridiculous.
They're letting teachers go left and right, but admin staff? I don't know, you can't get any info on that stuff!