Idaho taxpayers employ the equivalent of more than 27,000 full-time workers in the state's public school system. Of those, about 55 percent are teachers - a decrease of about 5 percent of the pie since the state implemented its school funding law in 1994. On the surface, that's not so troubling. But the problem is the burgeoning fleet of non-teacher staff flooding the ranks of school employees. Over the last 15 years, the state has added administrators and other school employees at a much faster clip than teachers or students. The oversaturation of non-teaching staff is endemic and defies legitimate trends in public school enrollment/Wayne Hoffman, Idaho Freedom Foundation. More here.

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Question: Are you concerned re: the point that Wayne Hoffman makes -- that the number of Idaho teachers are declining while support staff increases?