It's Absolutely Critical That I Eat this Candy Bar

From the list of personal service contracts filed in September of this year (page 42), $900,000 to the Association of Washington School Principals...

"To design, field test, and implement a state-of-the-art Leadership Academy for school principals and administrators, based on research correlating leadership practices and student achievement here in Washington State. The OFM Director approved an exception to ESHB 2921 based upon critical necessity."

When we're living off of Federal credit, when levy equalization is always at risk, when the state budget is $5.8 billion dollars in the red, is a program like this really a "critical necessity"?