By: schoolfinance101
I believe the point they were trying to make (following the thread and the link) was that in public schools teachers get paid… and in for profit models, the business makes profit… if they can… after...
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Oh, I thought they were pointing out that they pay (with Public monies) for advertising their schools instead of paying their teachers a fair wage.
View ArticleBy: Catherine Lugg
Because public school employees are ONLY doing their jobs for the money (See Newtown, CT–TOTAL SNARK).
View ArticleBy: kjopowicz
Seems from my days in private industry and teaching economics and finance that in any business, labor costs are normally 70-75% of the cost of doing business. Next is usually rent of various sorts....
View ArticleBy: Paul Lambert
I’m reminded of a dialog I once had with a friend who was in the auto industry. He observed that the American auto industry might be better off today had the auto workers gone on strike in the 1970s to...
View ArticleBy: schoolfinance101
First, I should note that it’s not necessarily the case that “an increasing fraction of their income is being drawn away by school taxes”...
View ArticleBy: NancyEH
Dr. Baker has already made the point, but I need to emphasize it: in many states (including mine – Maine), what some would consider teachers’ “working conditions” (class size, curriculum, teaching...
View ArticleBy: schoolfinance101
My concern is that this stuff must be on the table as we move toward test-based evaluation models. These matters of “education policy” are critical in making less unfair, the test-based evaluations....
View ArticleBy: Paul Lambert
The average compensation for the teachers in our school district has increased at a compound annual growth rate of 5.1% for the past decade – a 56% increase in all. Benefits costs have increased even...
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I assure you that there are additional layers to the math you point out above, including changes to total numbers of staff, and public school enrollment as a share of local population. Further, in most...
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