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According to Maddox, the roughly $10,000 per student the district spends every year is "way out of hand" due to massive over-staffing...
...have an $85 million budget, 8,000 students, 800 teachers and 750 other staff members. We have a situation where there is about one staff member for every five students. It's just unbelievable," Maddox said...
Cambridge has more than three times the state average number of administrators per student, Maddox said. In addition, about 40 of the district's teachers are on "administrative assignment," Maddox said, which means they have been taken out of the classroom...
...Maddox's solution is to cut approximately $13 million, or 15 percent of the budget...
...That would mean getting rid of the teachers on administrative assignment, which means taking on the teachers' union and firing some people," Maddox said. "The current school committee is unwilling to take on the teachers' union. I'm willing to do that...