Education Resource Strategies

Introduction
Choose Your Scenario
Model District Cost Drivers

Elementary Schools
Class Size and Planning Time
Small Group Support
Individual Tutoring
Staffing Strategies

Secondary Schools
Class Size and Scheduling
Staffing Strategies

Professional Development
School-based PD
Individual Careers/Other PD

Compensation and Time
Teacher Compensation
Instructional Time

Reports and Results
Budget Summary
Per Pupil Costs

Since salaries comprise as much as 85% of a typical district budget, staffing changes can significantly impact overall expenditures. The Elementary Schools Staffing page allows you to experiment with changes in positions not directly associated with classroom instruction including Administrative, Instructional Support, and Student Services staff positions at the Elementary school level.

Increasing common planning time and creating smaller, more individualized student groups may require a commitment of district resources. Reducing and streamlining staff not directly associated with classroom instruction can be a source for some of the funds required by such instructional improvement strategies.

Your base case data is shown below in the gray fields. Please enter values into the yellow redesigned fields to experiment with changing headcounts and salaries for various positions. You will immediately be able to see the impact on the district budget.

Please Note: To experiment with changes in classroom teaching staff, please go to the Teacher Compensation page.

	total fte		salary and benefits		ftes per	total
administrative	base case	redesigned	base case	redesigned	school	compensation
principal
assistant principal
secretary
clerical
school-based instructional support
literacy coach
math coach
other coach
new teacher mentor
student services
social worker
guidance counselor
speech therapist
occupational therapist mentor
psychologist
diagnostician
physical therapist
librarian
library aide
nurse
nurse aide
other paraprofessionals
school operations
security
bus driver
custodian
student instruction
teaching assistant/aide (reg. ed.)
teaching assistant/aide (sp. ed.)
resource teacher

	base case	redesigned	difference
average ftes per school
total ftes
total compensation

school system budget

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