The Principal, the student, the haircut

What ever the truth is about the situation; it will never be heard by an impartial third party. APS Leaders dodge accountability through a system that guarantees that if a complaint is made against them, it will be adjudicated by someone whose first interest is in damage...

We’re gonna need more people.

The question is; should school board members, as role models, as stewards of the public trust and treasure, and as public servants; be honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct. That, as the most fundamental prerequisite for all three roles. We need people...

It’s time for someone else to stand up

If we want our children to grow into adults who are willing to hold themselves accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct; we are obligated to show them what that looks like. I am not the only person who has said that. It has been said by Michael Josephson, the founding...

“What I’m after is accountability”,

says Mayor Martin Chavez. “What I’m after is accountability”, Says Ched MacQuigg; the guy who keeps asking APS Leaders to answer the same question. Will you hold yourself honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct? “Seems unlikely” says the...

The Journal’s agenda for the APS

It would appear that the AlbuquerqueJournal is four square in support of Mayor Marty’s plan to take over control of the APS. How else would you explain two pages of coverage of how mayors can fix ailing school systems, and still not one word about the upcoming school board...

Talk about the emperor’s clothes.

Political power and honest accountability vary inversely. A situation diametrically opposite the need. Yet no one will talk about it. except at Diogenes'six

Streetcars; or 89,000 of our sons and daughters?

If there is time enough to get a street car on the February ballot; there is time enough to put an alternative on the ballot. Instead of buying a trolley car, we will invest in our children. The stewards of our money will be men and women who are willing to be held honestly...

George Washington, the cherry tree; new development

If you asked a Leader of the Albuquerque Pubic Schools, did you chop down the cherry tree? If they answered they would say, through their lawyers, “Prove it.” And then they would use a whole bunch of money to keep you from doing that. The money comes from people who think...

Open Letter to Veronica Garcia, NM Secretary Of Public Education

Re: IPR o6-220, 06-222, 06-223 I call your attention to complaints filed with the Educator Ethics Bureau. The complaints have been denied a principled resolution. The scandal unfolds upon paper bearing your letterhead. I am offering you an opportunity to involve yourself...

Do public servants have a right to private lives?

Of course they do. The right to privacy is a fundamental human right. The right is so highly regarded that it is protected constitutionally by every respectable government on the planet. The right to privacy can be forfeit. When it is, it is because a warrant has been...

Open letter to every elected public servant in Albuquerque.

Open letter to every elected public servant in Albuquerque. Are you willing to be held honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct? If you are, visit my blog and post your name. I want to count you. In God we trust; everybody else will be asked to prove...

Ethics complaint aginst APS' Elizabeth Everitt derailed

Within the New Mexico Public Education Department lies the Educator Ethics Bureau. If you file a complaint alleging ethical misconduct by an educator, they will investigate the complaint and assign consequences. They have the authority to revoke educational licensure. All of...

I talked to the APS cameramen and asked them why their footage didn’t repre...

The cameramen expressed neither regret nor remorse over the manner in which they pointed their cameras during the school board meeting. The footage they shot is the record of how impartially it was shot. Is it dishonest to create a deliberately misleading version of...

“…fear of retribution and retaliation is part of APS culture…”

If you knew nothing else, you know that, that is a symptom of organizational ill health. I did not choose the word culture, the Council of Great City Schools did. Culture; “the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one...

Get Out of Jail Free cards for administrators and the school board; paid for...

APS senior administrators have a reputation for fiscal incompetence and corruption, and of dodging accountability. I have paraphrased Governor Richardson’s remarks from before the last bond election. Yet they are the stewards of hundreds of millions of tax dollars. They...