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Re:Is the US education system in a state of collapse, and wh... by nova22033 on Sunday April 16, 2023 @10:53AM (#35590519)
High education spending doesn't equate to good teacher pay. The pay for administrative staff has gone through the roof.

IMHO, teachers are underpaid for what they do and what we expect of them.

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Re:Is the US education system in a state of collapse, and wh... by musicale on Sunday April 16, 2023 @11:10AM (#35590646)
> High education spending doesn't equate to good teacher pay. The pay for administrative staff has gone through the roof.

Non-teaching expenditures have accounted for about 40% of the budget since 1980. However they were lower in 1970 (32%), so there seems to have been some expansion in the 1970s.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_236.10.a...

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Re:Is the US education system in a state of collapse, and wh... by sethammons on Sunday April 16, 2023 @11:57AM (#35591166)
When I taught in the San Bernardino City Unified School District there were more administrator staff than teachers.

Ah, still the case: https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?I...

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Re:Is the US education system in a state of collapse, and wh... by deepthunder on Sunday April 16, 2023 @03:42PM (#35593600)
Apparently Canada spends less on its Public Education System than the United States but teachers salaries are higher in Canada. US Public School System is top heavy with administrators by comparison.
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Re:Is the US education system in a state of collapse, and wh... by midoridensha on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:23AM (#35597376)
It's unAmerican if the managers aren't being paid 10-100 times what their underlings are being paid.
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