Virginia Saw Huge Surge In Non-Instructional School Hires
Growth in non-teacher positions five times the growth in the student population
From 1992 to 2009, Virginia's public schools boosted non-instructional positions by 100 percent — nearly five times more than the growth in student enrollment and almost 10 times the increase in teacher hiring.
The Old Dominion's ballooning ranks of administrative and other non-teaching personnel outpaced all other states, costing Virginia taxpayers an extra $948 million each year, according to the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, which published the report, "The School Staffing Surge."
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