Here’s the updated list of coverage of the report on administrative bloat in American universities that I wrote with Brian Kisida and Jonathan Mills for the Goldwater Institute:
Op-eds
News
Columnists / Editorials
Selected Blogs
National Association of Scholars
Reason Foundation — Nick Gillespie
Reason Foundation — Lisa Snell
Nevada Policy Research Institute
American Council of Trustees and Alumni
And here is our rebuttal to ASU’s statement attacking the report. The rebuttal works for most of the issues raised by other universities as well:
Jay P. Greene's Blog 
Really interesting stuff.
Do you know of equivalent studies in K-12?
I’m sure there are a number but you can also easily look up staffing info yourself in the Digest of Education Statistics. See http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d09/tables/dt09_080.asp?referrer=list