As the Seattle Schools Superintendent search gets underway, it continues to irk that we are going to be paying big bucks for our folly in chasing current Supe Raj Manhas away. The district’s consultants say we should expect to pay at least $60,000 more a year to the new guy, for an annual salary of $240,000, the Seattle Times reports again today. So not only do we have to deal with the distraction and morale fallout that Manhas’ resignation caused, but we have to take more money out of the budget for this at a time when we have desperately been trying to cut expenses. Just what we needed.
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