Posted on 04/27/2005 11:07:41 AM PDT by JZelle
The D.C. Council vented frustration yesterday about crumbling schools and hundreds of potential teacher layoffs by saying the city could find money by eliminating high-paying salaries and jobs in the school system's central administration office. "It's never about that big, humongous central administration office," said D.C. Council member Kwame Brown, at-large Democrat. "I want to see some additional cost savings there before we start laying off teachers." The discussion came before the council narrowly rejected a proposal by council member Kathy Patterson, Ward 3 Democrat, to use $10.7 million from other city agencies to help avoid the layoffs.
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"It's never about that big, humongous central administration office," said D.C. Council member Kwame Brown, at-large Democrat.
Interesting.
Another story of the failed socialist experiment that is Washington DC.
Q: When will they learn?
A: Never
Hopefully this will spread to the rest of the country.
There are many states that provide an education for less than $5,000/year/pupil.
As always, the schools are very top heavy with administrators and when it's time to cut, they hit the kids where it hurts and keep the administrators.
Happenin' here in Cleveland as well.....'bout time.
"Socialism doesn't work and is very expensive."
Because the 'collective' always goes to the hands of the elites first! There are many leftover elites from former socialist/communist eras. Hell, Castro's a millionaire!
"Socialism doesn't work and is very expensive."
Because the 'collective' always goes to the hands of the elites first! There are many leftover millionaire elites from former socialist/communist eras. Hell, Castro's a millionaire!
I sees de light.
My kids Catholic school in DC costs $5,000 per student - of course that is a la carte.
I wish to the good Lord that I could make this story the lead on all nightly news and above the fold on the front pages of all news papers in this country.
The Department of Education
I worked as a substitute while in college, and one ISD in South Texas had three (3) personnel managers - elementary, secondary, and substitutes - and I know there's a more efficient way to handle those areas. One personnel manager with some extra staff could do the same job. Probably had some nepotism and political favors going on.
If they're spinning the $10,000/student figure the way most of these big city public school systems do, it excludes all costs associated with acquiring/building/upgrading the physical school buildings and grounds -- which adds a LOT to the real per student figure. In other words, from an accounting standpoint, the figure they use is an "operating expenses" figure, which does not include "capital expenditures".
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw in the paper about 15 years ago. One panel had a little school house in the 1950's calling for more money. The next panel had the same little school house in the 1990's with a 10 story admin building behind it calling for more money.
Education is no longer about teaching kids to read and write, it's about an ever expanding bureaucracy that provides fewer results the more it gets..
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