They should cut some administrators - the great and golden finale of the public school career track.
Try o get any bureaucracy to cut back. There are about as many general officers in the military today as back in WWII when we had 12 million people in uniform. But the public schools are much over-administered. The ratio of administrators to classroom teachers is about 1-10, which is about the same as officers to enlisted in the military. Yet all the teachers are college graduates. They shouldn’t require what amounts to close supervision. When he was education secretary, Bill Bennet dubbed school administration “the blob” because it ate up such a large proportion of federal funding. The trouble is that politicians are not likely to listen to such talk because school superintendents have lockers right next to them at the country club and next to them are the leaders of the teachers’ unions. The “Iron Triangle” has nothings on these guys, and we see the same things in state capitals. Even conservative Republicans mindlessly repeat the mantra, “our schools need more money.” That’s because school districts have cut all the kindergarten teachers and aides they can and want to hire a new asst. Superintendent.