That’s a good place to cut. Classroom teachers are the productive workforce of the school. Secretaries and Asst Principals are far less productive, and one AP makes as much as several secretaries. The Principal will be much busier without APs, and he’ll have to make decisions quicker and sometimes without letting the aggrieved parent of a bully or cheater talk himself out, but I think this will save a lot of money at a minimal educational cost in the short term. In the long term, they’ll have to hire or promote principals who have no AP experience, but that just means raiding their neighbors.
I know this is a radical thought but why must a Principal have an educational degree?
Why not limit those with educational degrees to ... teach.
Have the school administers be people with business experience and or business degrees.
The higher you go in the bureaucracy the more “educated” the person is. I would propose the more “educated” they get the less they know how to educate children.
When did it become required that public schools have assistant principals anyway? Somehow I managed to get through K-12 in liberal Southern Cali without ever once having an assistant principal. Somehow I came out of it functionally literate and prepared for college, which is more than can be said for a lot of today’s HS graduates.