We Could Make 'The Worst Investment We Could Make' by Brandon Dutcher Oklahoma's teacher unions and left-leaning politicians still haven't quite caught on. The Berlin Wall is cracking, and they continue to think the solution is to spend more and more money patching it up. Oklahoma's good teachers certainly deserve a raise. We should be getting rid of bad teachers, not rewarding them with money that could be going to good teachers.
Some simple math suggests there's plenty.
Mostly to non-teaching personnel. Out of every 100 education employees in Oklahoma, only 47 are teachers. The remaining 53 come from the ranks of state bureaucrats, district and school administrators, instructional coordinators, and so on. To ask the question is to answer it. Absent fundamental structural reforms, history suggests dumping more money into the bottomless pit isn't going to help.