The last three or four years of my time on my hamlet’s budget Committee, I constantly harped on the School Board and Administration with this question:
What is your ratio of indirect to direct labor?
In other words, how many (and the cost) were actually teaching students versus those that weren’t? I saw that enrollments were down, yet costs were continuing to go up and up. And it was always clear that many private schools, especially Catholic and Protestant religious schools, were getting the job done correctly at a far lesser cost. Here’s one chart that shows I was right in asking the right question:
(H/T: Heritage)
