"Tom Stovall" wrote in message
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According to the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Independent School
District has 2.7 administrators for every teacher. Teachers no longer
teach, they jump through administrative hoops held by folks whose main
function appears to be justifying their existence in the educational
system by determining whether or not a syllabus is politically correct
and places enough emphasis on the TASP tests.

In the interest of reporting accuracy g, HISD has 0.13 administrators per
teacher, not 2.7:

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/100_largest/table_04_1.asp

Sometimes, especially when they want to color the truth for some purpose of
their own, people report total non-teaching staff as "administrators." If
you include all of the janitors, bus drivers, nurses, secretaries, etc.,
HISD has 1.5 "administrators" per teacher.

But you appear to be referring to those who manage or administer, or who
make curriculum decisions, and that number is 0.13.

Those are right in line with national averages. Houston appears to have its
janitorial/maintenance staff ("instructional support") listed as employees,
unlike, for example, Chicago. So your non-administrative staff looks a
little high, but that's probably because of the way Houston counts those
people.

Ed Huntress