APS "Leadership Vacuum" is a Good Thing.

School board member, Marty Esquivel stepped in for the APS Communications and Community Relations Departments, and for the rest of the leadership of the APS,on the Jim Villanucci show Friday afternoon. He said that, the problems that APS is having, are the result of a...

Dear leadership of the APS.

no Administrative Accountability Audit? no absolute transparency? no honest accountability? then No Mill Levy. Sincerely, (your name)

Your cost.

The principle is that public servants are accountable to the public; and accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct. I can think of no other way to demonstrate support for the principle; except to stand up in its defense. It is my conviction that, if enough people stand...

Their answer is no, deal with it.

Suppose that instead of stonewalling, the Leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools actually answered the question. What if when asked, in your public service, will you hold yourself honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct; they said “no” What if they...

Who pays for the lawyers?

If a public servant breaks the law while abusing her power, should the public pay for the attorney who saves her from accountability for that abuse? If so, is it still OK if the money goes to her husband’s law firm? It is a large amount of money; an amount so indefensible...

Smart Discipline?

In an Albuquerque Journal article entitled, Smart Discipline; an entirely superficial examination is afforded to the District’s response to discipline problems. A deeper examination would have revealed that discipline problems in the District stem APS’ lack of a...

Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez; MIA on the APS Ethics Scandal

Is there a scandal? I submit that there is based on the following facts. The leadership of the APS has repeatedly refused to hold itself honestly accountable to the same standard of ethical conduct that it enforces upon students. Further, the leadership of the APS pays...

Failing schools; the hidden truth

I submit that a school where children are in charge is a failing school, by any reasonable measure. Conversely, those schools where the adults are in charge succeed, by any reasonable measure. There is a simple test. Is prohibited behavior permitted? A school where...

The APS Ethics Scandal, the fight, the combatants, the MIA

The scandal; the leaders of the Albuquerque Public Schools have decided that they will not be held accountable for their (mis)conduct. They have eliminated standards against which their conduct can be measured. They have rendered powerless any system by which they might be...

Senator Pete Domenici; APS Ethics Scandal MIA

There is an ethics scandal in the Albuquerque Public Schools. The school board and administration have repeatedly refused to hold themselves honestly accountable to the same standard to which they hold students accountable; the Pillars of Character Counts. The scandal...

Serrano Spanks Tribune Editors

Tonight’s op-ed section in the Trib includes a piece by Dan Serrano, Vice President of the West Side Coalition of Neighborhoods. Serrano wrote in response to a Tribune editorial, “A West Side District Deserves One Big Boo, an essay whose gravitas was reflected in the...

APS Ethics Scandal; pick a side, cowboy up.

There is a fight going on. On one side is the Leadership of the APS. They refuse to hold themselves honestly accountable to the same standard of conduct that applies to students. They refuse to be role models of the student standard of conduct. On the other side there...