{"id":23101,"date":"2015-05-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kents-new-superintendent-cashes-in\/"},"modified":"2015-05-08T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:00:00","slug":"kents-new-superintendent-cashes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/kents-new-superintendent-cashes-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent\u2019s new superintendent cashes in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"p1\">I wish to congratulate Kent School Board President Debbie Straus for her recent, expertly negotiated, three-year contract for Calvin Watts, Kent\u2019s new school district superintendent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Watts\u2019 $250,000 a year salary is $76,383 more a year than Gov. Jay Inslee, who, as we know, is only responsible for every school district in the entire state of Washington. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">In addition, Watts\u2019 salary is only $150,000 a year less than the president of the United States, who we all can agree handles more pressing day-to-day matters than a city\u2019s school district.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">If I were the governor of the state of Washington or the president of the United States, I would seriously consider stepping down from my office and apply for a considerably less demanding but no less lucrative position within the Kent School District.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p4\"><strong><em>\u2013 Jon Weerts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish to congratulate Kent School Board President Debbie Straus for her recent, expertly negotiated, three-year contract for Calvin Watts, Kent\u2019s new school district superintendent.<\/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-23101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23101"}],"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=23101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23101"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}