Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Is there 1 administrator for every teacher in Texas? Not when you look at the data says the Texas Association of School Administrators.
According to the Texas Education Agency the student-administrator ratios in the state are closer to 13-to-1 and not 1-1 as claimed earlier in the week by the Conservative Texas Young Republican Federation. Based on the data provided by the TEA ...
Administrators made up only 4 percent of school employees in 2009-10 while teachers made up 50.5 percent."
The exact administrator-teacher ratio differs from district to district.
The Young Republican Federation arrived at the 1-1 number by classifying all the non-teaching employees of the school system as administrators" a method with which The Texas Association of School Administrators strongly disagrees. In a statement on its website discussing the issue the group spokesman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo wrote:
Those central office folks have important jobs that require specialized skill sets… But if there was a 1:1 ratio of central administration staff to teachers I think we could all agree that would be ridiculous."
The Young Republicans also believe that 80 of school payrolls should be spent only on teachers and support more transparency and expanded public access to school finances.
