When you look at our overall budget, and look at what we spend money for, I would like to think that we spend money for effective programs and effective opportunities that increase the academic performance, the social awareness, and the emotional stability of our students.

—Superintendent Ken Hinton, commenting at the May 7 school board meeting on why the district should break the bank to keep the Edison Schools contract. I wonder how paying $877,500 for houses the district can’t use, then razing them, increases academic performance, social awareness, or emotional stability of District 150 students.