Mayor Chavez, tell the Journal and Tribune to tell the truth

 Sir,If your interest is in accountability for APS Leadership, and not in empire building, tell the papers to tell the truth.  Allow stakeholders to decide whether to replace the current leaders with those who will hold themselves honestly accountable to a...

APS sez: the heck with public input

The public forum is no longer on the agenda of meetings of the APS Board of Education. The Board and Superintendent do not want the broadcast version of the truth to include their individual refusal to be held honestly accountable for their character or their...

APS Ethics scandal; more proof

There is evidence of a deliberate distortion of the truth in the broadcast version of ten public forums; the forums during which the school board members and superintendent each refused to hold themselves honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct. If you...

APS Board hides its misconduct

During the last board meeting, the Public Forum was moved 'outside of the APS board meeting" by putting it before the agenda. By their reasoning, the record of the public forum could then be edited from their “broadcast version of the truth”. And their constituents would...

APS Leadership; How can you trust someone who stonewalls?

The question is, can you demonstrate that you are honestly accountable to any meaningful standard of conduct? The Leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools should be able to respond by saying, yes. As stewards of the public trust and treasure; they should have created a...

APS Praetorian Guard fails to investigate

According to the Journal, the Commander of the APS Praetorian Guard, Gil Lovato, failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct by a fellow APS administrator. That illustrates the problem with the APS Leaders’ ownership of the system by which they are held...

Corrupt politicians usurp power

Public servants wield a great deal of power. They yield it legitimately only in the interest of the people whose power it is. The power is entrusted to them for no other purpose. Any other use is illegitimate; it is an abuse of power. Our power is certainly not entrusted to...

The citizens of Albuquerque have lost their control over their public schools.

The citizens of Albuquerque have lost control of the power that they entrusted to APS Leadership. The power has been usurped by the board, the administration and Modrall. The eight men and women and their lawyers who run the Albuquerque Public Schools refuse to be held...

Just for the heck of it

I decided to find out if the Journal and Tribune would tell the truth if I paid them to. I submitted a suggested text for my advertisement. It included mention of the APS ethics scandal, and the refusal of the Journal or Tribune to investigate or report upon it. I was...

Albuquerque Public Schools; Charter schools backfill

Can charter schools backfill into schools with declining enrollments? It makes too much sense mathematically, to not ask. So why won't the Albuquerque Public Schools Leadership respond to the question? Diogenes'six

Albuquerque Public Schools Leaders model hypocrisy

As role models for 98,000 of our sons and daughters, do the leaders of APS have any responsibility to model accountability to the standard to which they hold students accountable? Because if they do; they aren’t. The new, lower standard of conduct written and adopted by...

Albuquerque Public Schools Board Policy G.10

“The Superintendent or the Superintendent's designee will maintain a system of evaluation for all personnel in compliance with the laws of New Mexico and the standards and procedures adopted by the State Board of Education.” According to the APS Website, the policy...

The Albuquerque Tribune scoops the Journal; big time

The Tribune’s veteran education reporter, Susie Gran, scooped her Journal rival Amy Miller, when for the first time in either paper, Gran revealed that there is a school board election coming up. She also revealed that there are only 10 days for voters to discuss the...

Mayor Chavez lets APS Leadership off the hook; why?

Mayor Chavez claims an interest in increased accountability in the Leadership of the Albuquerque Public Schools. He claims it a lot. The Leadership of the APS is currently refusing to be held accountable to any meaningful standard of conduct. All Mayor Chavez has to do to...

Do you know an APS teacher?

If you do, you would be doing them a favor by telling them about my blog. Diogenes’six

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