Non-Professional Staff in the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and Common Core of Data (CCD)

摘要

Non-professional staff in the public and private schools in the United States often appear to be nearly invisible. Yet these teacher and library/media center aides, secretaries and other clerical staff, bus drivers, custodians, groundskeepers, maintenance personnel, and others in support positions are necessary, and indeed even critical, to the functioning of these schools. These staff also are hardly visible in published studies of the educational system. While the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has been gathering information about some of these nonprofessional staff since its inception in the 198788 school year, very little of this information has appeared in published results of these surveys. It is to partially fill this void that this Working Paper was written. This report focuses primarily on the data gathered in the 1993-94 survey. Changes in the wording of the questions and the categories of non-professional staff make it difficult to make comparisons between the various SASS results. However, this paper does include one table comparing the proportion of full-time nonprofessional staff in three categories for the 1990-91 and 1993-94 surveys.