We keep hearing how sacred our education budget is. But at the muni and state level, every time there is a shortfall it seems the school districts solve it by firing teachers. You never hear them getting rid of administrators or overhead staff.  In a state with a population around 700,000 we have over SIXTY .. yes 6-0 ... sixty independent school districts. I'm sure each school district has its own superintendent and administrative staff. I'm willing to bet that less than 20% of those school districts are locally funded. I'm also willing to bet more than half of these school districts have less than 1,000 students.  I would hate to guess what the ratio of administrators to classroom teachers is in the ASD. May if we actually focused our money on education rather than overhead these fine teachers could retain their jobs and we could provide something better than our "47th best out of 50" education system?