Tulsa and Oklahoma Counties have 15 Supers each.  Our own Rogers County  has 9 Superintendents.
     Seven counties in Oklahoma are statistically frontiers according to the 2000 US Census.  That is they have fewer than 6 persons per square mile.  And yet each of these sparsely populated counties has two or more Superintendents.  Beaver County in the panhandle has four Superintendents costing $246,297 a year. $25,547 in fringe benefits for the Superintendents brings the total up to $271,844 - just for Beaver County Superintendents.  The other Frontier County in the panhandle is Cimarron County with four Superintendents.  They make a cumulative $211,181!  $5,988 extra for expenses!  Dewey County has three Superintendents who make a total of $200,200 with expenses of $10,458!  Ellis County has four Supers that make a total of $238,565 - $9,897 more for their expenses.  Grant County has four Supers who make a total of $245,842 plus an additional $16,986 for expenses.
     Harper County has only two Supers.  They make a total of $137,525 and have $12,305 for expenses.
     Roger Mills County has 5 Supers who make a total of $302,383 and have expenses totaling 21,439!
     Now these are just the Frontier counties -- 6 or fewer people per square mile.  That does not include the other 70 counties with hundreds of Superintendents who take up space and draw significant salaries in the name of "educating our children."  To see a full list of Oklahoma counties and total salaries being paid to Superintendents click here.
     And just to drive our point home, Rogers County has NINE (9) Superintendents.
Let's not mince words here -- this is a SCANDAL!  We are talking about MILLIONS HERE; and they don't have enough MONEY to pay SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS?  They don't have enough money for SCHOOL SUPPLIES?  The teachers march on the state capitol holding up signs proclaiming - Save Our Schools?
     They are WASTING OUR MONEY outrageously?