To: K-oneTexas
""Teachers need a pay raise, and we've got increasingly expensive students to educate with increasing demands for performance," he said."OK, I've got an idea for you: get rid of the non-teachers!
Currently in the Aubrey ISD there is an "administrator" for about every two teachers!
My son's school has one person on staff whose single duty is to report grades to the principal's office - and every classroom already has a computer, on which those grades are stored.
Can't the teacher hit "send"?
13 posted on
03/22/2006 2:22:20 PM PST by
Redbob
To: Redbob
Amen.. The TEA is one of the worst Teacher's Unions in the country.. last time I checked, they received almost 10% of the education budget with another 25% going to districts 'administrative' costs.. They are now pushing this 'Teachers First' program which is an actual joke in regards to helping teachers.. it is all about keeping them under the thumb of the TEA.
16 posted on
03/22/2006 2:25:46 PM PST by
mnehring
(http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/.)
To: Redbob
"Currently in the Aubrey ISD there is an "administrator" for about every two teachers!"
A number of years ago Denver was trying to get bond issues passed for schools. What killed them and other cities in the metro area was adminstration costs were 40% of the budget. The voters didn't forget that for many years.
31 posted on
03/22/2006 2:55:00 PM PST by
jwh_Denver
(If liberals had any brains they would be more creative in their evil ways.)
To: Redbob
"Currently in the Aubrey ISD there is an "administrator" for about every two teachers!" It is even worse than you realize. In all of Texas, the ratio of teacher-to-non-teacher is almost 1-to-1 and only 51 cents of every taxpayer dollar goes to classroom instruction.
The article linked below provides some insight into the waste, fraud, and abuse that are making public education so costly in Texas.
School administration is out of touch with the taxpayer
To: Redbob
I like that ... administrative costs (administrators, secretaries, etc) should be cut. As well as the buildings other that the actual school. There is money there ... it's buried in the "I'm the most qualified Administrator and you need me to run the schools ... for say $15,000+ a year".
Yeah ... like I need another hole in my head!
42 posted on
03/22/2006 6:10:45 PM PST by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: Redbob
I like that ... administrative costs (administrators, secretaries, etc) should be cut. As well as the buildings other that the actual school. There is money there ... it's buried in the "I'm the most qualified Administrator and you need me to run the schools ... for say $150,000+ [Correction] a year".
Yeah ... like I need another hole in my head!
43 posted on
03/22/2006 6:11:30 PM PST by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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