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Do you believe waste, fraud, misallocation of funds and inefficiency occur in public education spending in the United States (athletics aside)?...
It's not for the sake of argument. The numbers are the numbers. They aren't "cherry picked" those are how many administrators are employed. It's a...
Yea, you're not arguing in good faith. You're trying to place the burden on me, to literally chart out and identify every specific example of...
The numbers are the numbers. Yea, administrative bloat is certainly a problem or do you not believe administrative bloat exists? That's just a...
It looks like the 1980s. Does that invalidate it somehow?
1. The Chicago Board of Education, which has 3,300 employees, is larger than the entire Japanese Ministry of Education. 2. The New York City...
You think those administrative bodies have shrunk? The administrative comparisons speak for themselves. 3300 vs. 36. 6000 vs. 25. Good grief.
Administration. There I solved it.
lol "partisan theory" - What's my partisan theory? I'm looking at trying to reform a system that spends $640 billion annually but still cannot...
This does a good job of looking at bureaucratic bloat and its drain on classroom spending....
@NewRoxFan Here, this article has some ideas. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/01/where-school-dollars-go-to-waste/384949/...
You haven't come up with a solution. You've made one vague and not totally thought or planned out suggestion. Does your suggestion materially...
Yea, of course, it's not literally "impossible" for someone to get fired from a public sector job. I think most can recognize the hyperbole there.
@ElPigto said he worked in the public sector and that it's impossible to fire people so they just get put to the side and continue to receive...
I mean, cutting athletic funding is a common solution posited and is a super easy thing to point at but I'm skeptical as to how much that actually...
When I said "Houston" I was counting the suburbs such as Pasadena, Klein, Katy, Cy-Fair... I figured that was apparent. Basically all of the...
I know a guy who does tutoring full time. We don't really have the relationship where I could ask his annual income but it doesn't seem bad. The...
@NewRoxFan Here you go, ponder how many Miltons are absorbing education spending.
Ok, I'm happy to look at state wide or national averages if you'd like. I haven't been looking at the worst paid or the best paid. Just jobs that...
Our tax dollars at work. Love to see it.
