As discussions of Oklahoma’s education funding crisis heat up, it is inevitable that someone will start yelling about how public schools spend too much money on administration. They’ll talk about a handful of superintendents in some far-flung districts that make six figures, or cite a large number of principals ensconced at urban schools. Let’s stop with the uninformed anecdotes and take a look at some actual numbers, gathered directly from the United States Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics and presented courtesy of the Oklahoma Policy Institute:
Oklahoma’s public schools have relatively low administration costs