To: Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, Richard A. Ross, Superintendent of Public Education, President Donald Trump, The California State House, The California State Senate, Governor Gavin Newsom, Rep. Clay Higgins (LA-3), Sen. Kamala Harri...
Public Institution Staff Funding Priority
Inflating administrative pay has starved scholarship funding instrumental in rampant and crippling loan debt in addition to increasing faculty hired as part-time adjunct-professor positions. I propose an action to limit the cost of public school bureaucracy and non-instructing staff in an effort to restore investment in scholarships and instruction. All non-instructing staff - president, super-intended, principle, football coaches et cetera should not make more than the 95th highest percentile of professor or teacher at any public institution.
Why is this important?
Inflating tuition, inflating debt and inflating administrative pockets
According to a study by The Institute for Policy Studies [IPS] institutions with higher paid presidents showed a correlation to declining permanent faculty, greater than national average student loan debt increases, and non-benefited part-time faculty grew significantly faster under these inflated administrations. The most inflated administrative salary institutions boasted twice as much spending on administrative salaries as funding for student scholarships!
Our taxes should fund the education of the population. The expensive board-members, presidents, principals, and superintendents have profited for too long cutting funds by decreasing scholarships, limiting offered classes and extra-curricular and siphoning money away from the faculty.
If the highest paid coach, principal, president, board-member was limited to the 95th highest percentile salary of faculty members, either faculty wages must increase or administrative bodies must allocate their salaries elsewhere. The Huffington Post reported numerous public college presidents take home over 500,000 up to millions a year in salary; the equivalent of 50 student's tuition or 8 full time faculty.
According to a study by The Institute for Policy Studies [IPS] institutions with higher paid presidents showed a correlation to declining permanent faculty, greater than national average student loan debt increases, and non-benefited part-time faculty grew significantly faster under these inflated administrations. The most inflated administrative salary institutions boasted twice as much spending on administrative salaries as funding for student scholarships!
Our taxes should fund the education of the population. The expensive board-members, presidents, principals, and superintendents have profited for too long cutting funds by decreasing scholarships, limiting offered classes and extra-curricular and siphoning money away from the faculty.
If the highest paid coach, principal, president, board-member was limited to the 95th highest percentile salary of faculty members, either faculty wages must increase or administrative bodies must allocate their salaries elsewhere. The Huffington Post reported numerous public college presidents take home over 500,000 up to millions a year in salary; the equivalent of 50 student's tuition or 8 full time faculty.