The PCSSD’s ending fund balance for the recently-ended fiscal year (2012-2013): $20,288,903.36. (This exact amount was obtained with an FOIA request.)

Who among us would not like to have that sort of “fiscal distress” in our own bank accounts?

Remember, it is this ridiculous argument — “fiscal distress” — which they are using to justify continued denial of local control (disenfranchisement of voters) in the Pulaski County Special School District.

Please write your legislators, the governor, State Commissioner of Education Dr. Tom Kimbrell, and e-mail Dr. Jerry Guess, PCSSD Superintendent (jguess@pcssd.org) to inform them you are not fooled any more, you know there is no “fiscal distress” in the PCSSD, and demand the restoration of local control in our school district. It is time for state control to end — now.