Morning folks.\u00a0 Here’s the final pre-fundraiser edition of Sunday Opinion.\u00a0 Don’t forget that tomorrow is the big day.\u00a0 Call early and call often.\u00a0 Now to the good stuff.<\/p>\n
The Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a> opines about the sudden departure of Peru’s new school superintendent, who was hired, worked a few weeks, went on leave, then resigned.\u00a0 He was paid an undisclosed severance as he went out the door.<\/p>\n So apprehension of district taxpayers is not without merit and concern.\u00a0 They’ve been fleeced before.\u00a0 Just who are the elected School Board members representing?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile, the Albany Times-Union<\/a> is chiding Governor Andrew Cuomo for not listening to school leaders around the state who say that deep cuts in education aid are affecting classroom quality.<\/p>\n How about a reality, too, where the governor\u2019s office works more collaboratively with school officials, rather than so glibly dismissing the concerns that they so plainly spell out?<\/p>\n How about collectively assessing the longer-term effects of laying off some 7,000 teachers in New York, almost 4 percent of the statewide total? Is that too severe a cut, as the superintendents so strongly suggest?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n