Not sure what you think all coaches are making but it ain't that much for the amount of work some of us put into it. During wrestling season alone I'm putting in 40+ hours per week in addition to my hours in and out of the classroom as a teacher. Based on my stipend that means I'm around 4$ an hour for all of my effort.
Maybe we can cut a few people from your office and you can donate those salaries to the school district of your choice. Or maybe just raise taxes. Or perhaps some parents can stop their whining and step up to the plate and do whatever is necessary to insure that public education has what is needed to provide a solid education for their children.
There is bloat in school district parolls.....but it sure as hell ain't in the salaries of teacher/coaches.
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75-80% is spent on personnel costs thats ALL personnel in a system. I administered school funds in central office for some time. You need to do some research your self. That figure includes, insurance benefits payed to all personnel, fica, retirement matching funds mandated, all salaries. etc.
I'm not sure where you are disagreeing with me. I understand where the money goes. Do schools and districts need extremely high salaried administrators? Does each school need a Principal and vice principal? Some with several vice principals??? Why can school employees be on a similar retirement as the private sector?
In the end, people are tired of the bloated school administrations, teachers and administrators that are next to impossible to fire when they really stupid chit, being asked for increased taxes "it's for the children" to cover the costs of increasing salaries and benefits and then when school starts the teachers sending home a "wish list" of items the teacher would like the parents to contribute to the classroom. If you were the "money guy" for the district I surprised you don't get it. Or am I?
Your original statement was "70-80% of budgets go to administrators salaries" Then in the above statement you said administrators and teachers. That was more of my point the percentage is for ALL employees, teachers, custodians, administrators, maintenance personnel bus drivers, cooks, etc. not just administrators.
In this state if a district's total administrative cost for salaries is above 8% that school gets a gig on its state report. If that persists the regional accreditation officer will sit down with the supt and ask for a plan to reduce it. I do get it now does this help you understand better?
My additional comments would be in the area of expenditure by the state on a per pupil basis. Oklahoma has cut theirs 22% in the last 4 yrs. West Virginia, a state with very similar demographics, spends almost double what we do here in Oklahoma. I need help understanding that before I will ever support cutting educators pay when the state puts soooooooooooooooo little value in the cost of providing for education here. Oh and our esteemed legislators pay ranks in the top 25% nationwide.
but, lottery!
Yeah, where does THAT money go????
Working inside the educational system really changes your view of the system.
Theres no need to guess the entire compensation package of every school employee in Oklahoma is public information and published online.
With all the doom and gloom with the entire state budget, I always wonder where all of our tax money goes. My property taxes have not gone down. I am spending more each year thus sales tax collections haven't gone down. Lots of folks I know say the same thing. So where does the money go?
Education. Lottery brings in a profit of 70 million a year.
The education budget for k-12 was 52.4 million in 2013, this is for salaries, retirement, and benefits. The state has to get to the 52.4 million somehow, they use the lottery to get to that number. The problem is, even if the lottery brought in 100 million, k-12 isn't going to get a scent more than 52.4 million. We haven't seen a large increase in education spending since the lottery began, but did anyone really expect it.
What I saw from inside the education system is why I quit working there. Funds from one account being used for something unrelated. State audits that found the same offenses over and over again, with some recommending that the matter be taken up by the DA's office, but zero follow-through.
Actually, they aren't. Local papers use the unpublished compensation packages as leverage on a regular basis. Sure, it's public record, but they are not all available online.
Keep in mind that the "state budget" is only for ~40% of actual state expenditures. The legislature only budgets for the taxes that are assigned to general appropriations (i.e. income tax, sales tax, and relatively few other taxes). If it's an earmarked tax or an agency-imposed fee, it is not included in the official state budget.
Better link: http://www.ocpathink.org/articles/2663
http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?id=441369
45% to K-12
45% to Higher Education (colleges, CareerTech)
5% to School Consolidation and Assistance Fund
5% to Teachers' Retirement
There is no cap in place.
Of the higher education portion, colleges see ~90% to fund tuition, student loans, and scholarships. Keep in mind that, even with this, Oklahoma colleges have each year for the past several years generated record revenues while seeing increases in the state budget and citing state budget deficiencies as justification for higher tuition.
Your statement about how "$52.4M" is dead wrong. The education budget for education for FY2013 was $3.4B, with $2.3B being K-12. Actual spending by the State Department of Education was $4.4B. $70M was transferred to the education fund by the lottery, meaning $31.5M went to K-12, $28M went to colleges, $3.5M to CareerTech, $3.5M to Teachers' Retirement, $3.5M to School Cons/Asst Fund, after a $500K earmark for Mental Health. http://www.sai.ok.gov/Search Reports/database/cafr13.pdf
Education saw at 2% increase in 2013 and a 4% increase in 2014 from the "state budget". Bottom-line actual education spending (the $4.4B) increased 0.3%.
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