Another troubling trend in Kansas. “Since 2011, 162 Kansas superintendents have resigned or retired, according to information provided to the Journal-World by the Kansas School Superintendents’ Association. That means that of the 286 school districts in Kansas, more than half have seen turnover in the superintendent position in the past five years.
“Buie said that the increased number of resignations is a combination of several factors — such as people generally staying in positions for shorter amounts of time and large numbers becoming eligible to retire — that exist in many professions. But others are more specific to public education, such as the debate over school funding in Kansas and criticism of school district spending.

“’Every time you turn around someone is beating up on you, intentionally or unintentionally, and it just wears on you,’ Buie said. ‘And we’ve been dealing with a lot of that with the Legislature recently.’”

Read more here: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/jan/31/lawrence-school-districts-superintendent-vacancy-g/