Parents revolt against public schools using choice option

No matter whether a neighborhood is blue or white collar, parents are demanding a better education for their children than what too many public schools have offered.  Charter schools, parochial schools, and home schools choice have given them the opportunity to decide...

Ohio Gov Ted Strickland (D) Cutting Charter School Funding

Ohio governor Ted Strickland (D) is planing to cut funding drastically for community schools by 75%  leaving some inner-city kids without a school choice and leaving thousands of Teachers,Board Members,Support Staff, and Landlords jobless as community schools have a...

Ohio Republican Campaigns to Return $30,000 to PACs of Charter School Kingpin

Return of Questionable Funds Avoids Scrutiny, Fines by Ohio Elections Commission OhioNewsBureau COLUMBUS, OHIO: David Brennan, a wealthy Akron industrialist whose White Hat Management charter school company has reaped millions in public funding made possible by Republican...

‘Right to carry” permit for APS school board candidates?

I thought long and hard before posting this. There will be those who will say I made it up. I have been advised three times now, by different people, that because of what I am writing; I should pursue my right to carry a concealed weapon. Well into the third millennium, deep...

The privileged class

The greatest thing about being a member of the privileged class is that you can not be made to justify, defend, or even acknowledge, your membership. Diogenes’six http://ched-macquigg.blogspot.com/

APS Leaders and the Tribune spread the “truth”

According to the Tribune; the embattled APS Police Chief is also the subject of a previously unreported lawsuit alleging retaliation. It is not surprising. Gil Lovato is the chief of a private police force that is neither certified nor accredited by anyone other than the...

Robert Lucero owes his constituents an explanation

I’m sure they would like to know why he spent hundreds of thousands of their tax dollars renovating a board room for him self, while Susie Rayos Marmon ES is falling apart. Unfortunately he is not in the habit of responding constituent’s questions by telling the...

“Get Out of Jail Free” cards for APS Leaders

…paid for by taxpayers. During my interview with the editors from the Tribune, I mentioned that APS Leaders by and through their Modrall lawyers bought immunity from accountability for felony criminal misconduct. I was asked; don’t people do that all the time? Imagine...

APS’ Everitt stonewalls Rep. Heather Wilson

The APS ethics and accountability scandal has been brought to the attention of Representative Heather Wilson. She wrote a letter to APS Superintendent Elizabeth Everitt. The superintendent was asked to respond to my allegations. 45 days were allowed for the APS...

“Shite” rolls downhill for a reason.

It is moving away from power. Those at the bottom of the hill are held accountable. Because that works out well for the powerful. Were the situation reversed, power would move down to its intended purpose; retaining only enough power at each step to protect it from...

APS Police Chief Gil Lovato under investigation, finally.

Albiquerque Public Schools has its own police department. I do not know how rare that is - but in this case, our Albuquerque public schools watcher Chedd McQuigg has been watching the APS very closely since he became a member. He has been consistently critical of issues of...

I guess we just won’t ask

With the removal of the public forum from school board meetings, the forum is no longer on the record; questions asked during the forum can now be ignored with impunity. Stakeholders can no longer expect answers to questions like: • Why did the board unnecessarily renovate...

APS school board candidate bounced from Board Meetings.

It had to do with a dispute over parliamentary authority. Board Policy B.14 Parliamentary Authority Roberts' Rules of Order, newly revised, will govern the Board of Education, except when state regulations prevail. …Actual procedures will be left to the discretion of the...