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The record is clear. Even SACS cited my findings.
p. 6 from the AdvancED / SACS reporting that put district on probation
“An artifact distributed by a board member showed that the district would incur a five-year total disbursement of approximately $54 million over budget in just three areas of operation.”
“The fact that the system had under-budgeted millions for utilities and legal work during the past several years was not properly explained.”
Salary Category FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012FY2013 (budget)
% change from FY08 to FY13
Instructional salaries 415,285,549416,612,72
4392,967,69
1374,785,95
0 373,853,144 328,233,395 20.96%
Pupil services salaries 32,067,781 32,308,574 32,976,402 31,650,864 30,798,699 26,084,183 18.66%
Instructional services salaries 13,228,134 12,610,858 12,626,332 11,217,545 10,799,878 8,176,069 38.19%
General Admin salaries 6,083,571 7,568,035 7,654,011 6,641,160 6,759,728 6,961,900 -14.44%
The only salary component that has increased over 6 years
School Admin salaries 51,144,189 50,835,527 50,384,018 49,201,490 46,147,591 42,212,907 17.46%
Transportation salaries 32,955,785 32,977,365 30,908,337 29,826,399 30,614,613 25,717,953 21.96%
Maint. & Op. salaries 44,066,056 44,121,903 42,321,098 39,814,969 37,524,036 31,773,747 27.90%
Supporting Services salaries 16,855,598 16,876,031 15,018,788 13,188,561 12,669,691 11,826,679 29.84%
Total Salaries 611,686,663613,911,01
7584,856,67
7556,326,93
8 549,167,380 480,986,833 21.37%
Despite claims of cutting central office staff, over 6 years spending on General Administration salaries rose almost 14.5 % while teaching salaries declined by over 20%.
You only get these problems in a state that let it happened.
Before I alerted the public to the deceptive budgeting techniques, no agency, official or department
was doing anything about this mess.
Georgia spends in the TOP TEN in the nation on education in aggregate.
K-12 education is the largest single expenditure of our state budget.
Georgia received the Grade of “F”.
Every state that borders Georgia has a HIGHER rate of graduation.
Every state that borders Georgia spends less per pupil.
In a report released in February 2013, Ben Scafidi, Ph.D., documented* that between 1992 – 2009, Georgia has had an increase in student enrollment of 41% but at the same time, administrative and other non-teacher salaries have grown 74%. *“The School Staffing SurgeDecades of Employment Growth in America’s Public Schools”
If we had kept the growth of administrative and non-teaching salaries to the same rate as that of student enrollment, we could increase the salaries of every teacher in Georgia by over $7,700.
More classroom, less bureaucracy
Consequences
Disclosure and transparency
