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If there's so much money, why do American schoolteachers buy classroom supplies out of their own pocket?
by triceratops 1y ago
If there's so much money, why do American schoolteachers buy classroom supplies out of their own pocket?
- ashdksnndck 1y agoIt’s up to the local school board to carve up the budget. Usually the top items are salaries, pensions, and health insurance for teachers and staff. If we’re looking for contributors to differences in education spending between the US and other countries, those school boards are one place to look. The overhead of administrative staff at thirteen thousand local school districts is significant. The US also has quite high salaries by international standards, which increases per-capita spending on pretty much anything.
- const_cast 1y agoBecause like most US systems, the institutions are far too fragmented and therefore overly complex and inefficient. So, a lot of the money just goes towards the overhead of logistics and managing the beast - aka, administration. It's the same problem in healthcare. We spend a lot of government dollars on healthcare. But when you have thousands of insurers and then boards per state and extremely complex billing, you're going to be putting the majority of your money into not-care.
- giardini 1y agob/c they're not very bright?
- Gravityloss 1y agoI wonder how much of the budget goes to sports.