When your superintendent makes more than the governor: public education's priority problem

The American education lobby is caught in a pickle.

On one hand, advocates and influencers are trying to convince people that public education is chronically underfunded, even going so far as to claim that schools are “starving.”

On the other hand, watchdogs have documented countless examples of waste and misuse of funds—everything from the McKinney school district’s $70 million high school football stadium to the La Joya school district’s $20 million water park to the Brownsville school district’s 65-foot, state-of-the-art digital scoreboard that is “the largest of its kind in Texas.”

Other examples exist too, but perhaps the most instructive involves superintendent pay packages. After all, leadership starts at the top...

https://thehill.com/opinion/education/417802-when-your-school-superintendent-makes-more-than-the-governor-public?utm_content=buffer63cb5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR3vcG4v_Y1vIj9jz6BYJnarH0WERTDaD6anN1pTiVtZRNowr1luUdHmxhg