Well worth repeating !
In Houston's HISD, there are at least 2.3 OTHER employees for every classroom teacher.
And that is just at the ISD! Whole battalions of civil serpents in Austin at the Texas department of education labor away (I use the term loosely) doing not much of anything worth doing, and further divisions of federal civil serpents issue dictats, revise forms, prepare reports nobody reads about things nobody cares about. Seriously, educational productivity would soar if every one of these useless barnacles were laid off and required to get jobs as WalMart greeters. Teachers in the schools could teach, principals could administer, and 3/4 of the schools assistant superintendents, deputy under assistant superintendents, etc. etc. etc. could be eliminated - most of their jobs involves feeding useless data to the state and federal parasites; eliminate those at higher levels, and the schools would need teachers, building principals, a superintendent, and a business manager, plus a few custodians, cafeteria workers, and bus drivers.
As it is now, probably 2/3 or the money we expend on educational personnel salaries and benefits is completely wasted.