There haven't been district cuts period! Just a couple of years ago we had a superintendent, deputy and that was it! Today we have a superintendent + deputy superintendent + chief of staff + chief financial officer - what the hell is this district doing!?! Pretty soon we will have an extra chief of whatever at each school. If we want to save money cut 2 of the 125,000.00 dollar "chiefs" and put back some Indians (teachers). PS- I also heard they (district staff) are again taking a field trip to the Ritz Carlton costing $50,000.00 this summer!, to add insult to injury it's the THIRD year for this. Somebody on the board needs to wake up!!

So John Dick, whose heads rolled after the second bad audit??? It is one thing to be a bombast and spout out your thuggish remarks on the radio, and quite another position to refuse to back up the statement. Looks like a good political sound bite, with nothing to back it up

They are only candidates now Mr. Dick. By the Grace of God, we will change two seats this time and the balance as soon as possible. The pride taken in making the claim that 20 teachers "retired" is lost in the fact that they are being systematically pushed out by the board's move to reneg, yet again, on a commitment that they have repeatedly made to the teachers who dedicate there lives to educating our youth. This is, in essence, that if you commit to being in this district, we commit to helping you with insurance in your retirement. However, we are at a day where, due to the inability of the board to find collaberative resolutions to the present budget climate...all bets are now off. Thanks for the 30 years of service, but again the board has shown that their word and commitment to those in service is beyond the binding 3 year contract that they waded up and threw in the trash. As a result, we go into next year with roughly the same amount of students and 49 less teaching professionals than ever before. My question is this, what happened to the million plus dollars that were to be saved after throwing all the maitenance and custodial workers to the wolves? The results were a substantial down grade in the quality of life to those workers and their families, but the actaul savings...if any...seems to be a slippery fish. And itemized breakdown of line item costs...which any small business in the county could simply provide by a key stroke has been explained to be, by the Stuperintendent, as a $500k additional expense. So this board cuts by ego, in the dark, to the detriment of the teachers, the community..and worst of all...the students.