[jasonrr]

The really misleading thing about these statistics is that the budget is not 100% teacher salaries. I am guessing, it's not even close. That means to get your 16% savings you are going to have to cut a lot more than 16% of the staff.

[tokenadult]

Staff compensation (and it is an error to assume the compensation consists solely of "salaries") is in fact the major part of the expense of running any school system.