Trim The Fat

[Sabrered]

With budgetary shortfalls in our educational system, the timing has never been better to take a hard look at the fat that is disguised as administrators. How many Vice Principals and Assistant Superintendents does our school district need? Obviously this would be the ideal location to do away with redundant personnel that are sucking the lifeblood out of the district. The acting superintendent is in an ideal position to remove the fat cats with out having emotional ties to the personnel. It's time for the administration to step up and make the hard decisions that they were hired or elected for. It's time for fiscal responsibility. Cut the fat. The warning signs are out.

[Nomos]

Wonder if anyone has facts on mfisd on how many classroom teachers, how many of those coach, how many non- certified in the classrooms, bow many support (clerical, maintenance, etc) and how many administrators.

Only then can we determine if and to what extent there is fat.
And does anyone know what good ratios are? Any examples of effective schools with low admin:teacher ratios?

[swpilot]

how bout the multi-million dollar football stadium that was not needed..instead of wanted..now we have two facilities to take care of...and the list continues to grow..how bout HD projectors in every classroom...absurd!!!!!!

[Reapp]

There is already a thread on this: http://www.thehighlandlakes.com/showthread.php?p=10066#post10066