The Education Intelligence Agency reports that teachers are the majority of education employees in the US - but just barely.
The ranks of the “non-teachers” include every other public school employee: instructional aides, school staff (principals, assistant principals, librarians, school secretaries), other staff (bus drivers, custodians, security personnel, food service workers), district staff (officials, administrators, instruction coordinators) and employees that work at county or state education agencies.Eighteen states and the District of Columbia had fewer teachers than non-teachers in their public education work force in 2001. That’s up from 12 states in 1998 and 7 states in 1995. In 1969-70, the percentage of the workforce who were teachers was 60%. In 2001, it was 50.8%. It is highly likely that today, in 2005, the United States employs more non-teachers than teachers in its public
education system
I've always complained that low academic performance was the result of bad teaching, but now it seems more appropriate to say no teaching. If a school district has more vice-principals, secretaries, and administrators than it does teachers, no wonder the hard work of conveying the 3R's doesn't get done.
Posted by kswygert at April 25, 2005 04:58 PM