Last year, the Kentucky General Assembly significantly increased funding for public school teachers. But the Fayette County School Board used the money to give huge bonuses—not to teachers on the front lines, but to administrators: up to $81,000. The pay raise for teachers next year is currently undetermined. State Rep. Matt Lockett (R-Nicholasville) said that “slipping hundreds of thousands in bonuses to attorneys, accountants, and administrators is contrary to the legislature’s intention that teachers get raises.” Instead of using increased funding set aside by state leaders to reward teachers in the classroom, the Fayette School Board chose to pad the pockets of those who don’t actually work in the classroom. Such actions undermine the claim that teacher’s aren’t taken care of in Kentucky.