Government Schools: Student Growth 96%, Bureaucracy Growth 702%. This Is What Central Planning Produces.

Public school enrollment since 1950 is up 96 percent.
The number of teachers is up 252 percent.
But the number of non-teaching staff has exploded by 702 percent.

This is the story nobody wants to talk about.

Instead of putting resources directly into classrooms, the system has ballooned into a massive administrative apparatus. More bureaucracy. More overhead. More cost. But not more learning.

This is why education keeps getting more expensive without getting better.
This is why parents feel like their kids aren’t getting the support they need.
This is why taxpayers keep paying more every year and seeing less return.

When a system grows bureaucracy seven times faster than students, it is serving itself, not families.

The problem isn’t teachers. The problem is an ever-expanding management class that absorbs resources while delivering no measurable improvement in outcomes.

If we want better education, we need accountability, transparency, competition, and the ability for families to choose systems that serve students—not bureaucracies.