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Top Heavy American Public Education: Administrative Hiring And Salaries Outpace Teacher Hiring and Pay

As test scores plummet or stay stagnant in U.S. public schools, the usual cries from public school advocates are ” we need more money.” It’s the same strident call we have heard since I started in education in the late 70’s. Remember this bumper sticker? (you can STILL buy it online!)

That bumper sticker was usually placed next to a “Coexist” bumper sticker or some other silly progressive saying.

As a thirty-year employee of the schools who was a teacher and administrator, that bumper sticker promotes the big lie that U.S. public schools have always been underfunded. They are not underfunded. The funding they get is frivolously and poorly distributed to personnel and programs that are useless and ineffective. Even grant funds, which many schools apply for and rely on, are granted for programs that sound good on the outside but do nothing to help students achieve. Once those grants are done, school systems are left with superfluous staff who are no longer paid for by grants.

However, as in many government bureaucracies, funding is used as a way to not only overpay staff whose existence is often not based on a real need or function, but it is also a way to grow a political base that will keep certain people in positions of power. For example, look at the recent decision by Baltimore City to sign their CEO of schools in her position:

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7 thoughts on “Top Heavy American Public Education: Administrative Hiring And Salaries Outpace Teacher Hiring and Pay”

  1. Top heavy salaries is the cause of much of our economy and housing problems. A few company execs are taking most of the company’s profit, leaving pennies for the people actually doing the work. This is the picture of almost all big corporations. The equality of pay is is way lopsided allowing the majority barely enough for daily expenses. Top salary parasites need to be reigned in and reminded where they came from and who got them where they are now.

  2. Public school, universities, colleges, health care companies…etc… So what happened is that more and more people went to college to get useless degrees. They needed some where to go, so they created “middle manager” jobs. Meanwhile, our blue collar and manugacturing jobs were being destroyed.

    Hence the rise of health care managers and every school in college having a “diversity officer” and every idiot public school having “resource officers” and principles with ph-ds in “public education”.

    There is no fixing of this. We need a famine to cleanse the world of useless eaters.

  3. Incentivized by the Federal Department of Education!
    Get rid of that and teacher’s unions and watch America be smarter again!

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