Employment has grown explosively in U.S. public schools over the past two generations, far faster than student enrollment, and I was delighted to see Jay Greene drawing attention to this recently (with one caveat). I am equally delighted to see the Friedman Foundation’s major foray into this area: a new report titled “The School Staffing Surge”.

This report describes the national employment and enrollment changes over two periods: 1950-2009 and 1992-2009, as well as the state-level changes for the 1992-2009 period. Check it out!