Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · May 15 1 / 4
Longtime readers may also be unsurprised to hear that much of new district spending is for staff benefits, which has more than doubled per-student. Required pension contributions have more than tripled. Districts also bear the brunt of large increases in medical benefit costs.
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One upshot is slower growth in salary, and esp. teacher salary, spending. That growth seems to have been driven by teacher experience, more hiring, and, recently, one-time bonuses. But real teacher salary schedules are basically unchanged over the last 20 years in California.