> Money and education results don't correlate Even if they did, see my math analysis above that roughly 1/5 of employees are front line instructional and 4/5 a

> Money and education results don't correlate Even if they did, see my math analysis above that roughly 1/5 of employees are front line instructional and 4/5 are deadwood administrative. Therefore even in the most superficial analysis 80% of the money will be wasted on metrics and TPS reports and consultants. The reality of course is deadwood can cause much more damage than a front line instructor, lets say 2x as much, so of the $100M at least $90M would be wasted on deadwood and only $10M would get to the instructors. $10M to the instructors sounds helpful, but its a big district so it divides out to only $10K or so per instructor. Figure a substantial portion of that will be lost in paperwork and corruption (4 out of 5 employees exist to get in the way...) so you only get $5K per teacher effective. Assuming money equaled results, $5K isn't much. A math teacher could buy 50 brand new TI calculators, assuming buying brand new calculators increased student results, which they probably don't. Or about ten ipads, so the ten worst troublemakers could play angry birds and get out of the way of the rest of the class. Or $5K is about two sets of new overpriced textbooks for newark's very large class sizes. Again assuming any of those expenses give results anywhere but the product sellers bottom lines... But even if they did give results, they couldn't give much.