Administrators Make Money For Public Schools

Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum

A lot of people are going to post loud comments about cutting administrators. You folks don't understand the economics of public education.

CCSD has *thousands* of regulations it needs to comply with. You can't expect teachers to know them all. Only a small army of $100K+ bureaucrats can do the job.

Then you have all the non-teaching positions which were built into the grant applications. You can't eliminate them without violating -- penalties apply -- the terms of the grant. Besides, those "cost-plus" positions actually make money for the district. Fire them and the "profits" go too.

Then you have all the political hires whose jobs serve to curry favor with state legislators and large voting constituencies.

So you see, Administrators are valuable. *Teachers* are burden.

Teachers have expensive and inflexible employment contracts. State funding is per *student*, not per teacher. Fewer teachers reduce CCSD expenses without reducing state funding. Teachers are susceptible to making controversial statements and having illicit contact with students, which exposes CCSD to costly lawsuits and political embarrassment. And finally, many teachers are just incompetent. Get rid of them now en masse and avoid lengthy, expensive individual employment discrimination suits.