The APS Office of Equal Opportunity Services

This is the office where the leadership of the APS handles the complaints that people file against senior administrators and board members. EOES Director Charles Becknell and I were having a spirited discussion. He wanted to know why I was filing a complaint against...

Is there an heir apparent in APS board district four?

My blood ran a little cold as I watched Marty Esquivel and Paula Maes exchange a long hug. And again, when as he was leaving he told the board; I look forward to serving on the board with you. The rest of us had been prefacing our remarks with, "if I’m elected". And yet...

Don’t make me get physical

…said the Praetorian Guard member. I was “resisting” the fact that I was being thrown out of the third board meeting in a row for daring to try to speak on the record. A publicly funded, private police force is being used to suppress political opposition. I will...

‘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...

There's a school board election ahead

Yesterday, all of the school board candidates had an opportunity to meet with representatives of the unions of the people who tend to the needs of 98,000 of our sons and daughters every day in school. I promised them a seat at the table where decisions are made. The same...