Pay no attention to our increasingly poor schools.
State budget cuts are hitting one south-central Kansas school district so hard that their superintendent is voluntarily
resigning to save money:
The superintendent of a south-central Kansas school district has resigned so the district won't have to pay his $81,000 salary.
Superintendent Mike Sanders announced during a meeting Wednesday that he would resign from the Skyline district in Pratt County at the end of the school year.
And he's not the only one being
forced out of the district:
He said the district had already decided not to replace the guidance counselor who resigned because her family is moving. Other full-time positions, including a physical education teacher, were cut to part-time.
“Eighteen people in our district have been reassigned, had their hours reduced or they’re losing their jobs,” Sanders said. “We saved about $477,000 in that process. But we’ve been running really on fumes the last three years.”
Sanders, a Republican, is left questioning the deep tax cuts enacted by Governor Sam Bronwnback:
“The ironic thing to me is, the governor and all the people that support him say this is all about job growth,” Sanders said. “Well, I’m a Kansan. My music teacher and counselor are Kansans. They (the Legislature) have to face the issue: This is what it’s going to look like for us if this isn’t fixed.”
Not that Brownback and the Republican-dominated legislature care. They just keep holding onto the myth that those much-celebrated (by Republicans) tax cuts are going to magically spur new business in the state and wipe out the
$400 million deficit those tax cuts created. In the meantime, Sanders and others can hang on and wait for the trickle to make it down to the schools.