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The Hidden Half: School Employees Who Don't Teach | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute

The Hidden Half: School Employees Who Don't Teach | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute:



The Hidden Half: School Employees Who Don't Teach

The number of non-teaching staff in the United States (those employed by school systems but not serving as classroom teachers) has grown by 130 percent since 1970. Non-teachers—more than three million strong—now comprise half of the public school workforce. Their salaries and benefits absorb one-quarter of current education expenditures.
 
The Hidden Half: School Employees Who Don’t Teach analyzes how school staffing has changed over the last half-century, what might be driving the trends, and whether these developments are financially sustainable or educationally wise.
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