Public Schools Burdened By Bureaucrats

Posted: Monday, November 26, 2012 5:44 am | Updated: 2:38 am, Tue Nov 27, 2012.

Public Schools Burdened By Bureaucrats By NAPS,
North American Precis Syndicate sedaliademocrat.com

(NAPSI)—America’s public schools are bloated with bureaucracy and skinny on results. To curb that trend, a new report has proposed a strict diet: Focus on students, empower their parents, and reward great teachers.

Since 1950, the number of public school non-teaching positions has soared 702 percent nationwide while the student population increased 96 percent, according to “The School Staffing Surge: Decades of Employment Growth in America’s Public Schools.” That report, from the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, shows teachers’ numbers also increased--252 percent—but still far short of administrators and non-teaching personnel.