Solidarity with Sask Teachers

[Eric Vail]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

At least Alberta is towards the top of the metric for average salaries (teachers and support/admin staff) based on those same data tables from Statistics Canada:

When they put teachers, support staff and admin in a bucket together, it is tough to understand what it means. Support staff make far less than the other two groups, so a province that hires the fewest teacher assistants will have a higher spot on the rankings.

It doesn't really tell who is the best paid.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Eric Vail

When they put teachers, support staff and admin in a bucket together, it is tough to understand what it means. Support staff make far less than the other two groups, so a province that hires the fewest teacher assistants will have a higher spot on the rankings.

It doesn't really tell who is the best paid.

By that same standard, we don't really know what the chart you posted about students per employee tells us. Maybe Alberta is very lean on administrative/support staff while other provinces are top heavy and those student counts per employee are skewed and misleading.

[Azure]

Aren't there studies showing that for every $1 you spend on education, you get $2 back in economic return?

[Eric Vail]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

By that same standard, we don't really know what the chart you posted about students per employee tells us. Maybe Alberta is very lean on administrative/support staff while other provinces are top heavy and those student counts per employee are skewed and misleading.

But we know Alberta class sizes are larger than other provinces which is a product of the low per student funding. We know the UCP stopped collecting class size data because they wanted to substantially raise them. We also know there are far fewer support staff in place than there were a decade ago.

[Whynotnow]

Originally Posted by Azure

Aren't there studies showing that for every $1 you spend on education, you get $2 back in economic return?

Tha sounds like it makes sense but perhaps the UCP also have a study that says for every $1 spent on education you create 2 NDP voters. I kid(sort of)