{"id":22970,"date":"2011-08-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/schools-deserve-heuschels-attention-not-valley-hospital-commissioner-campaign-letter\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T14:00:00","slug":"schools-deserve-heuschels-attention-not-valley-hospital-commissioner-campaign-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/schools-deserve-heuschels-attention-not-valley-hospital-commissioner-campaign-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools deserve Heuschel\u2019s attention, not Valley hospital commissioner campaign | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Superintendent Mary Alice Heuschel should be spending her time on Renton Schools, not a hospital commissioner campaign.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>With one failing school, a large budget deficit, and a $242,000 (including benefits) salary, clearly her priorities should remain with the schools.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>She says her contract requires her to do community service. That is great, but those obligations should be completed on her time, not the kids\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The hospital board meetings will be held during the school day when she should be working to improve schools. The job she is being paid to do.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Overall, the Renton Schools have done well under Heuschel\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As long as she holds the position of superintendent, that is where her focus should remain.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The children, school district employees and the school district voters deserve her full attention.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Erin Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong> Bellevue<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superintendent Mary Alice Heuschel should be spending her time on Renton Schools, not a hospital commissioner campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22970"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}