[Burlem]

I have a neighbor who is a teacher, gets every holiday, the Christmas, Thanksgiving, which of course are multiple days or two weeks for Christmas, she is off now for the summer.
then there are the benefits of health care, prescriptions, and pensions. Not bad is right.

California budgets 50% of the entire budget on education, unfortunately 75% of that amount does not reach the classrooms, goes for administrative salaries and etc. I favor a huge trim at the top.
I remember when we did not have all the folks in nice offices, the principals of each school made the decisions.
then we got the Dept. of Education and things spiraled downward.

[bwteim]

"California budgets 50% of the entire budget on education, unfortunately 75% of that amount does not reach the classrooms, goes for administrative salaries and etc. I favor a huge trim at the top."

If you go to
http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/StateAgencyBudgets/6010/agency.html
you will see that 32% of the budget goes to education, not 50%.

Also, where did you find that 75% of California's education budget does not reach the classroom? Thanks.