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In article <45npjs$j06@shellx.best.com>,
James Salsman <jsalsman@bovik.org> wrote:

>What I believe we are seeing here is that some politicians think people
>are more afraid of being taxed than widespread illiteracy in some areas:
>
>                    Public             Mean
> 1991-1992     high school  Pupils   salary Expenditure
> Primary and    Graduation     per       of     per
> Secondary ed.        rate teacher teachers   pupil
>               =========== ======= ========  ======
>United States         71%    17.3  $34,098   $5,245
>               ----------- ------- --------  ------
> Corelations for nonaggregate data below
>   Pupils:teacher   -0.22     1
>      Teacher pay   -0.02    -0.10       1
>   Pupil spending    0.03    -0.51       0.83     1
>               ----------- ------- --------  ------
>Alabama               66%    17.8  $26,951   $3,627
>Alaska                72     16.7   44,718    8,330
>Arizona               72     19.3   31,176    4,309
>Arkansas              77     17.0   27,070    3,700
>California            68     22.8   40,192    4,491

Dear Mr. Salsman,
Thank you for posting this info. I have some questions about these figures
for which I've never see answers. If anyone can answer them, I'd appreciate
it very much:
1.) When calculating the "mean pupils per teacher", who is counted as a
"teacher"? For example, are administrators included? Spec ed. teachers?
Counselors? Certificated personnel at county offices? Personnel at state
depts. of ed? The reason I ask this is because in California where I am, I
don't know of any school district that have class sizes that average 22.8
pupils per teacher, so there must be more people included as teachers than
just people who are really assigned to teaching.
2.) How are average salaries calculated? Again, does this include only
people who are actually in classrooms teaching or does this include other
personnel as well?
3.) Does the expenditure per pupil include state funds only or does this
include federal funding? Are there other sources of funds included in this?
Does this include funds that go to the state dep. of ed or does include
only the funds that actually reach school districts? Does it include
funding that goes for teacher education, staff development, and other
similar purposes?

Regards,


Dennis Dawson
Burlingame, California
dawson@best.com