Since getting to the petition described in my previous comment would require copy-and-paste, here is an easier way to find it: simply use Google to search for "change.org education petition cut administrators pay" - it's already spread to over 30 states, making it the top hit on Google for those search terms. If you don't want your taxes being wasted in this way, please make your voice heard! Enough is enough!

It's absurd that the term "fiscal distress" is used to attempt to justify attacks on teachers, support staff, and our contracts. "Administrative bloat" is the true cause of the PCSSD's financial woes, along with poor decisions made by past and present administrators. For example, our superintendent, Dr. Jerry Guess, collected a salary of $215,000 last year, and that doesn'teven include numerous benefits which cost taxpayers a lot of money. Add in those other costs, and there are 57 people in the PCSSD who cost the taxpayers over $100,000 per year, each. It should be pretty obvious why we are in fiscal distress. Not one of these 57 people is a teacher, and administrators teach no one. This is a problem across the nation - overpaid administrators who interfere with education by abusing teachers. There are a FEW good administrators, and, since we have far too many now, those few dedicated ones are the only ones we need. If Dr. Guess really wanted to help with the PCSSD's budget, why did he not take a paycut for the upcoming school year, himself? He'll be collecting the same salary, which is higher than that earned by anyone in the US Senate, or the President's cabinet! Since this is a nationwide problem, we are now petitioning Congress for the education reform America really needs: cutting administrators' pay. The details are at the petition site. If you agree with it, please sign it, and then pass it on to everyone you know, in all fifty states. The petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/the-c-a-p-education-reform-proposal-save-america-s-schools-by-cutting-administrators-pay-with-federal-legislation

Any Arkansas citizen can do an FOI request. The Arkansas Press Association has a nice booklet on it, also at their website. Go for it! Meanwhile, I agree totally that a contract is a contract, or else why bother to sign them? Before the state "takeover", the employees were nearly alone in calling out excessive spending by administration & board members, which is what got the union on the hit list, in the first place, IMHO.

Would a journalist look into an FOI on spending done by Superintendent Guess? Might be a connection between him and the previous crooks of our school board.. Some people might know about this.... just saying.... the publc would be interested on whistle-blowing on spending that he's done at the districts expense. Before comments are made by looking at my "pen name", just investigate it to find out.. Don't just take my word on it...