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Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky, at the center of a swirling controversy over the Clark County School District&#;s growing budget deficit, announced Thursday that he will step down when his contract concludes at the end of June

&#;I am not resigning.

I am leaving on my terms,&#; he said at news conference at Bracken STEAM Academy, a Las Vegas elementary school.

&#;This will allow me to confront problems &#; and problem-makers &#; head on, without holding back.&#;

Skorkowsky, whose salary is $, this year, stressed that his retirement was his decision, and did not link it to the furor surrounding the district&#;s budget shortfall, currently estimated at between $50 million and $60&#;million.

But Skorkowsky, 53, said the move will make it easier for him to respond to critics and address what he sees as the underlying reason for the financial crisis: an unfair state funding scheme for education.

&#;The decision today allows me greater freedom to deal with those attacks and address t