Why are there so many more nonteaching teachers today compared with a decade ago?

The result: teacher for teacher, it has more nonteaching support staff.

The teachers are seeking a greater voice in running their schools, fewer nonteaching duties and a 21 percent pay increase over two years.

The teachers' contract raise also covered some nonteaching school workers, including secretaries.

In roughly a fourth of his schools, teachers have voted to continue their nonteaching duties.

He cut about 2,000 nonteaching positions and stabilized the district's finances.

The report was released a day before Yale's contract with 3,500 nonteaching staff members expires.

Some labor experts noted that the wage increase negotiated by the teachers also gives the same increases to 20,000 nonteaching school employees, like secretaries.

The university administration agrees that the campus needs more nonteaching administrative personnel and more permanent professors.

Despite resistance by many bureaucrats and administrators, City Hall has stimulated improvements: Some 2,500 nonteaching positions have been cut.

Bruce Cooper, a school-finance expert from Fordham University, said larger urban school systems tend to have more nonteaching staff.

While drug interaction errors increased, they also increased on the nonteaching service, probably because of the addition of new interaction rules to the database.

Here in Helena, Mary Brown has taught her 12 children at home while manufacturing clothing there in her nonteaching hours.

That provision frees teachers from patrolling corridors or cafeterias and from taking nonteaching assignments, like working as a college adviser.

About 2,800 nonteaching employees at Rutgers University walked off the job today, disrupting the first day of spring classes for about 48,500 students on three campuses.

The New York City Chancellor shared management and support with approximately 62,000 nonteaching personnel in Fiscal Year 2009-2010.

Professors Schneider and Ellingson, for example, teach classes alternate semesters, and spend their nonteaching months doing research and applying for grants.

A tentative contract agreement was reached late Tuesday between Rutgers University and representatives of 2,800 nonteaching employees, ending a nine-day strike, spokesmen for the two sides said.

As the Steven Spielberg of knot-tying adventure, Mr. Phillips spends most of his nonteaching hours armed with a video camera seeking out knot-tying people.

"Maintenance people are patrolling the grounds, additional substitute teachers were called in and all people who had nonteaching responsibilities are patrolling the halls," Mr. Persi said.

If the Republican-controlled County Legislature approves that plan, 65 nonteaching jobs would be eliminated and 4 teaching jobs would be added, Mr. Gaffney's office said.

Last year, the State Education Commissioner, after hearing the district's appeal on its budget defeat, reinstated three nonteaching positions, insisting they were sorely needed, said Superintendent Christine Kane.

Although he tried, Mr. Bloomberg also failed to eliminate a contractual restriction on assigning teachers to patrol hallways and cafeterias or to a nonteaching role like working as a dean.

He was a frail, desiccated-looking man in his late seventies, well past retirement age, but still retained as a member of the faculty in a nonteaching post so that he could continue his paleographic studies.

Peat Marwick is doing a management study of the entire system, while analyzing how the district should deal this month with nearly 250 vacancies occurring among school nurses, secretaries and other nonteaching positions because of a retirement buyout program.