California Schools Taking out CAB loans

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

richardhutnik said:
One thing of value here might be to look into what is going on with American society to see what is impacting things. Running deficits in local school districts are a sign of SERIOUS problems. One can say "oh it is the unions fault" or say that kids need to be janitors, so you can fire all the unionized janitors. But something is wrong. Could be breakdown of families and so on also. I know from trying to substitute teach at public school in a local city to me, that there is a lot of problems. Would be useful to see where the money is going.

Well according to the American Assosiation of School Administratiors.

65% go to Instruction and Instruction related mateirals 

18% Operations

10.8% Administration

5.3% Student Support Services.

They only seem to have a breakdown of the first one.... Instruction and Instruction related matierals.

67.1% Teachers Salaries

21.8% Teacher Benefits

4.5% Purchased Services

1.3% Tution to out of state schools/private schools.

4.8% Instructional Supplies

.05% others.

 

Which, doesn't really put teachers in a flattering light since that means that essentially 57% of the total budget just goes to paying teachers.  (Not even counting administrators, principals and the like... nor "purchased services or tution to other states/private schools.)

 

Though for all I know that's a reasonable percentage to pay teachers.

How much are these teachers actually making, though?

Labor is usually the most costly thing in any institution, anyways, unless you're handling really high-cost items (like real estate or something).