If some current faculty are incompetent, the golden handshake is a better option than abolition or restriction of tenure. How a person can be employed by a district for five, ten, fifteen, twenty years or more, and still be classified as temporary is an absurd legal fiction. In addition, districts now routinely violate Sec. 87482 of the Education Code, which relates to a limited retention of temporary faculty. The following data, the latest available, are taken from the 1996 Report on Staffing and Salaries .
Parentheses indicate from which table in the report the data was taken.
No single table indicates the total statewide part-time salary and benefits expenditures. It can be calculated by taking data from various tables. Since few part-time faculty have benefits, no attempt was made to calculate the benefits figure. For example, many districts' art instructors have a load factor higher than 1.0, thereby giving them a higher pro rata pay than instructors with a 1.0 load factor. Recent new money for part-time health benefits and office hours are not figured in, nor are expected savings in administrative costs.