Jobs stay as schools shrink

The Sacramento Bee

Enrollment drops, teachers leave, but administrators stay.

That's the story at most of the 25 school districts with declining enrollment in the Sacramento region, according to a Bee analysis of state education data.

Just eight of those districts reported to the state that they had cut administrators between the school years 1999-2000 and 2004-2005, even though the districts lost about 5,000 students during that period.

Five of the 25 districts added administrators.

And although most of those districts aren't cutting administrator positions, they are employing fewer teachers. Twenty-two of the 25 districts have fewer teachers today than they did five years ago, state data show.

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