Report Card on EDC Public Schools - Less Than Half of School Employees are Teachers
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"29,166 students in 67 public schools. The average salary of the county’s 1,346 teachers was $61,752 last year." That is one teacher for every 22 children and one employee for every 10 children.
County Superintendent of Schools Vicki Barber, Ed.D and Deputy Superintendent Jeremy Meyers gave supervisors their annual report card on education in the county. In general, local students are doing “exceedingly well, clearly far outperforming the rest of the state as a whole,” Meyers told the board. The measuring stick is the Academic Performance Index which represents a range of scores administered as California Standard Tests under the State Department of Education.
The total cost of all that learning is a bit over $250 million of general fund money for all county students from kindergarten through 12th grade, according to the COE’s “Public School Facts 2011-2012″ brochure. Additional funding of nearly $4 million provides specialized services from a number of specific grants...
http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/supes-get-schooled-on-school/
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