Daily Chart: The Super-Blob // Steven Hayward

Hillsdale College president Larry Arnn gives our attention these startling facts (and chart) about K-12 open public education:

If you want to see the problem with Us education, look at a graph and or chart illustrating the comparative growth inside the number of students, teachers, in addition to district administrators in our open public schools in the period in between 2000 and 2019. (See the chart below. The number of district administrators expanded by a whopping 87. 6th percent during these years, significantly outstripping the growth in the amount of students (7. 6 percent) and teachers (8. several percent).

These numbers, yet , do not really get at just how deep the rot inside education runs. Arnn once more

Typically the fiction is that these bureaucrats are highly trained, dispassionate, nonpartisan, and professional, and that as a result they can do a better career, of almost anything, than an individual outside the system can do. These people Only they can study these rules–and, for the most part, they will read them as they you should.

Almost 40 years in the past Bill Bennett referred to people education establishment as ” The Blob. It is a monster.