(August 25, 2017 at 2:07 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(August 25, 2017 at 1:54 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: While it's true that funding and pedagogical approaches can and do factor into student performance, I think that the two most important educators in a child's life are his or her parents.
Where that funding is applied is a huge factor as well. For example, spending it on administration doesn't seem likely to have a positive effect on educational outcome.
This is sooooo true. It's not advancing education at all when the district superintendent's second secretary makes twice as much as the average teacher. The Feds need to put some restrictions on how much of the money can go to administration and require certain percentages to go to teaching staff and textbooks/supplies/etc... High school sports needs to be at the lowest percentage of that funding. I may be wrong, but I don't think there currently are any.
Let the district admin staff run a bakesale for their perks instead of the schools running fundraisers to insure there's enough chalk and dry-erase markers!
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