Given University System of Maryland Chancellor William E. Kirwan's $500,000-plus salary it's no wonder taxes in this state are sky high ("Kirwan ranks in the top 50 of highest-paid public college presidents," June 7).
Just what does a chancellor do, anyway? Doesn't each university have its own president and high-priced staff?
While we are at it, what does the state superintendent of education do? Doesn't each county and Baltimore City have their own school superintendent?
On top of that add the Baltimore City school system's bloated central office of approximately 1,000 employees. That unit could easily be run by no more than one or two hundred employees at most.
There's a lot of excess money in the public education system but what difference does that matter if it's only taxpayer dollars.
H. Glen Miller