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- From: klf@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (karen.l.fenton)
- Subject: Re: EDUCATION, MONEY, AND THE FACTS OF LIFE
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:36:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.181241.9406@athena.mit.edu>, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
- >
- > The school boards very rarely are responsible for buying the buildings. That
- > leaves the following expenses, building maintenance (electricity, repairs,
- > cleaning), administration and school supplies. This is far less than your
- > typical service business. School supplies should not be running more than $200
- > per child. Administration should apply a multiplier of 1.1
- > (1 administrator for
- > every ten teachers), and building maintenance REALLY
- > should not be costing more
- > than $300 dollars per child. We are left with a DPE
- > multiplier of approximatelly
- > 1.4. I would suggest that the difference between actual spending
- > and this figure
- > is entirely waste. Particular in spending on administration
- > and also in other areas.
-
- Actually, these assumptions are way off base.
-
- Our numbers shake out closer to 1 administrator to every 23 teachers,
- and salary/benefit costs of about $5800 per pupil. (This is a
- K-12 district.)
-
- In fact, school boards *do* often end up "buying" the building -
- for two reasons: either the district is 'growing' and needs to
- build new schools, or it's an older district which needs to "remake"
- significant portions of its facilities.
- One of the big (*BIG*) drivers of the latter has been the enormous
- amount of 'up-to-code' changes mandated by legislation dealing
- with the needs of special ed students and students and staff with disabilities.
- We're constantly enlarging doorways, building ramps, installing
- elevators....
- Code covering fire alarm systems has changed, we're faced with
- state requirements for removal of underground storage tanks (estimated
- cost of removal is close to $3 million).
- There is code requiring each kindergarden room to have its *own*
- toilet facility. (Figure 12 schools, 2 kindergarden rooms per
- school....$$$$$)
-
- The typical service business is usually not bound by the myriad
- requirements with which a public agency gets hit.
-
- Karen
-