Bureaucratic Bloat Is Eating Away at the American Education System The problem is rife throughout America today, too much government regulation strangling outcomes, driving up costs, and making life miserable for everyone involved. Students hate modern school, parents hate modern school, teachers hate modern school, administrators hate modern school. only the union bosses like it because it guarantees them their huge paycheck. Time for a reality check. The only people we should not care about in this equation are the union bosses. Flush them. More below. "Rothwell’s post helps illustrate the exhaustion of mainstream policy thinking in the West on both sides of the political divide. The Boomer progressive formula of more spending and more borrowing and more subsidies has done more to nourish rapacious and growing bureaucracies than improve educational outcomes or skill acquisition for disadvantaged students.
And while conservative state and local policymakers have the right instinct about the risks of administrative bloat, few have offered a workable program for actually restructuring and rebuilding these institutions while excising the crud that has accumulated over the years, offering instead indiscriminate cuts and starve-the-beast orthodoxy. One reason voters delivered such a stunning repudiation of the establishment last month is that elites have stopped offering bold or creative thinking—allowing themselves instead to become complacent in the face of mediocrity and decline—and voters sensed this. Now is the time to turn things around." The administration from 1960 to present has grown by 7 times, teachers by 2.5 times, students almost 1 time. The cost of the administrators has become the true shock, not just are they more expensive than teacher, but hugely more so. And they do nothing of note, or interest. The solution is to begin cutting the schools free of the school district, and the best way to do this is to make each school independent essentially charter schools, and then voucher the state and local funding, and allow the students/parents to decide which school best meets their needs. The same kind of competition which makes Olympic athletes so formidable, will make the education edifice formidable as well. Or we can double down, and ride this dead horse right to where it will fall. Your choice. Choose wisely.
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