Hello Tony, and thank you for your response.

In my district (which is a small one) my superintendant does the work of several people, namely running the district, writing grants, etc. We have a principal and vice principal at the elementary and middle school sites because we have more students at those sites. Currently my principal is alone in our high school of over 400 students. I can tell you that my administrators are paid probably less than most of their district size.

The problem is not consolidation. It would never work. For example, the following article lines out the problems with it: http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/03/08/together_we_wont/

Local control is always better because a superintendant over several districts wouldn’t know the small details or problems facing each individual district, and districts are as unique as fingerprints.

I am pretty upset with our union since we didn’t push for long enough. Many feel they were betrayed by a union that backed out after only two weeks. The problems in our state have been growing for over 10 years and to come at the problem only now is probably too little too late. We should have marched over 8 years ago.

The truth is that the GOP in this state wants to privatize education. A dumber populace is beneficial to the support of their discriminatory, unconstitutional and sometimes moronic policies. http://rethinkingschools.aidcvt.com/special_reports/bushplan/righPRO.shtml