SEQUIM – Kirk Miller knows life in a small town. He’s superintendent of Montana’s Havre School District, where he went to high school – and where he faced his neighbors’ wrath when he closed an elementary school due to declining enrollment and district budget cuts.
These days, Miller spends his energy getting school levies passed – to supply the 33 percent of school funding that, in Montana, must come from local property-taxpayers.
But in 11 years as the Havre schools chief, Miller said, he’s been successful with every levy effort.
In the last of the public forums featuring three finalists for the position of Sequim School District superintendent, Miller told about 20 parents, educators and other community members at the Sequim High School library why he’s considering leaving his home state.
