Would the school district help me understand their priorities in okaying almost $600,000 annually in expense accounts for staff and trustees ($2.384 million in the past four years) yet cannot find $20,000 for disadvantaged students?
The school board seems reluctant to give exact details of expenses but the bulk of them appear to be used by administration personnel to attend conferences, seminars, symposiums and workshops.
I doubt that these meetings make any significant difference to student achievement.
With administrators attending dozens of these meetings each school year, with the inherent costs to the taxpayer of flights, hotels, dinners, lunches and mileage, one wonders how much time they have left for work at the spiffy new administration complex?
Tony Lewis