went to school with her daughter. This girl was on the school newspaper and decided to do a filler story on School Administrative Costs in the the school districts around Oklahoma City. What started out as a probably dull story picked up steam when she realized what she was going to have to do through to get the information administrative costs from the State Dept. Education. She ended up writing two stories, one on the original story line and the second on what it took to get the information. The school refused to print either story so she made copies and distributed it around herself. I used to have a copy by threw it away a while back. It was pretty interesting and you could understand why the school did not want the information getting around. I have to admit, the amount of administrative positions and costs actually shocked me. Most schools generally have one Principal and one Vice Principal. There were schools that actually had a Principal for every grade level (in the same building). Which School District was the biggest offenders regarding Administrative costs? You guessed it, the school district that the girl was in. The numbers don't lie. Why on earth are we paying to employ so many upper lever administrative personnel when we need money for the classrooms? Just looking at the information the girl got from the Dept. of Education really made you sit up and take notice that money is routinely diverted from the classrooms to administration.
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