Philadelphia, which pays the teachers a fortune and has a horrible school system, recently closed 12 big schools because they are “out of money”.
There was just a newspaper article that in the remaining schools, kids have to share text books which are falling apart, and there are not enough books for the kids to take home at night.
But when they closed those 12 enormous schools, they just dumped thousands upon thousands of new books in empty buildings with no effort at all to redistribute them. The few teachers that are interested enough have to go there and personally look for books for their classes. the city is now going to hire an outside firm to catalog all the unused books.
The article in the Democrat owned newspaper reported this without a single reference to waste and mismanagement.
I don't know, but I am willing to bet my last dollar that there is plenty of funding for non-teaching positions such as secretaries, administrative assistants, executive assistants, assistants to assistants, vice assistants, vice principals, co-principals, assistant principals, etc. etc. etc.