DOE Excess Spending On Supervisors Is A Myth

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Christina Kishimoto, Hawaii Department of Education Superintendent says that saving money from the DOE’s 2 billion dollar yearly budget by cutting supervisory positions is a myth.

I agree, but I can’t decide which myth. Is it more like Sisyphus, where taxpayers constantly roll their money up a mountain for better education, only to find it never gets there? Or perhaps we taxpayers are Phineus, stranded on a remote island, then, when our paycheck is set before us at the end of a long work week, it’s nearly picked clean by the Harpies of DOE, IRS, State, Excise, County...

The State Department of Education receives 2 billion dollars in state and federal funds each year. DOE Superintendent, Christina Kishimoto, says the perception that money can be saved by cutting administrative positions and overhead is just not true.

“That is an ongoing myth. Ninety-three percent of our state funds are in schools, in the classrooms. Ninety-three percent of the state’s budget is in schools, is in schools, in classrooms. Either directly in the hands of principals or in shared services like busing and food.
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