A coworker of mine who's on the local schoolboard had always fretted over our administrators contracts. He constantly tried to explain to me why we taxpayers had to pay such high salaries and benefits to administrators. He used language which was not from his go-to vocabulary. It eventually came out that in closed sessions, power point presentations from the administrators association would be used to scare the local board into why administrators were so valuable and how much it would harm the district to lose their administrators. For about five years he bought the BS.
Last year they fired the administrator and two principals. The board allowed one principal to stay if he took on the other duties as well as the buildings and grounds work. The principal cried at the offer and gladly grabbed it up.
The entire public education system and it's unions should be a RICO case. It's like peeling an onion when you need a negotiated contract for each layer.