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My home state, Arkansas, has been in crisis mode in school spending for about the past five years. In his latest proposal, the Governor suggests that school district’s administrative spending should be capped at seven percent of their overall budget. In a story in today’s paper the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette revealed that 21 Arkansas school districts will have to tighten their administrative belt to meet this goal. In response, Clarendon School District Superintendent George LaFargue on his district’s administrative spending…
Clarendon, with just 705 students, topped the list of administrative spending percentage in 2005 spending 11.22 percent of its budget on administrative costs.
