Posted on 03/21/2008 10:53:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
we always here about this but many people I know with teaching degrees can not find full time jobs!.....
does anyone know just how much the average California teacher makes ?...and what the average pension/yr is?......that kind of info seems never to be talked about....
What moronic crud... A radio station said that as many as 4 thousand administrators were getting pink slips. It begs the question - why do we have 4 thousand administrators in the first place? Stop blowing money. The biggest waste of money in the state is making every campus ADA compatible. It dwarfs the billions we spend educating illegals.
Can’t say ‘mom’ and ‘dad’ in schools there now. When the Christian homeschoolers and such yank their kids out of the schools, I will like to see what that exodus does to their godless, atheistic, pro-gay, pro-abort school system. Hope it totally tanks. It will help out the other 49 states’ school systems, textbook-wise.
http://www.ca.rand.org/stats/education/teachsalfixed.html
http://www.aft.org/salary/2005/download/AFT2005SalarySurvey.pdf (Reported by the AFT, a national teachers union. Data from 2005. See p. 32.)
the link here goes to a pdf file ,, go to page 4, Figure 2..
Note this is 2001-2002, I am looking for more current but this will give you a general idea.
http://www.edsource.org/pdf/TeachersCompFinal.pdf
The older teachers make decent change. Where a big chunk of the money goes is all the non-teaching professionals. Superintendents make big money. Then all the school shrinks, counselors, numerous administrators. All of these people pay union dues. They have union leaders that get paid more for being leaders.
btw, there is quite a bit of data in that pdf ,, albeit a bit dated.
“When boom times came 1999 taxes on capital gains brought $24 billion to the state treasury schools spent the windfall immediately to make up for past debt, without saving for rainy days to come.”
I’m not sure I agree with the premise of this sentence. Schools are allocated money by local or state governments for the purpose of paying its bills that year.
It’s not a school district’s job to put some of its money into securities, it’s not a self-contained, self-capitalized business; it’s a government service. It’s the gov’t’s job to make sure it has capital available for all its projects. Not to say there hasn’t been waste, but the job of any government agency is to spend its budget. They were given the money to spend by the powers that be.
More fake reporting....no one has received a pink slip yet....and spending isnt being cut...future increases are being cut.
And they want me to stop homeschooling my kids so they can attend schools like these? They're crazy! Over half the schools in my city are failing schools - they look slightly better than a crack house and the kids they're turning out need to take their shoes off to count to twenty. I'd rather up and move out of this state than have my child put one toe into these schools.
The teachers’ union has a death grip on California.
Being first in spending and teacher salaries should get the system to the toilet roll, not the honor roll.
Pink slips were handed out in Northern California today, a cousin and her coworker, both young teachers just out of college without tenure, were pink slipped. Anecdotal, but I did exchange email with her just a few minutes ago.
Some of that could be the demise of the Secure Schools and Communities Self Determination Act funds. These funds replaced the 20% timber receipts previously paid from timber sale profits on National Forests to local schools and county road departments. The timber receipts halted when the Northwest Forest Plan (spotted owl) stopped timber harvest. The Secure Schools Act has now sunsetted. My rural county in California lost nine million in revenues per year to schools and roads. The Governor’s cuts would be in addition. This has plunged schools and Counties into a budget crisis.
It looks like we’ll finally be out of the public school system next year. My son just got into a private high school, and my girls are already in private school.
I’d just like my tax dollars back.
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Thanks. I was about to ask, “What is the dollar figure that was spent last year, and what is the dollar figure proposed to be spent this year?” I simply presumed that the reporter was lying, and that more dollars will be spent on education this year than last.
Do you happen to know the numbers?
FRegards,
LH
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