APS board meeting record falsified

A record is kept of meetings of the school board. It is a video tape compilation, normally from tapes from two cameras. I have been assured by Russell Reed, APS videographer, that when he edits the tapes, he combines footage in a manner that preserves the second by second...

The Trib spins the APS Ethics Scandal

Consider the eight ounce glass holding four ounces of water. The pessimist’s spin is that the glass is half empty. The optimist’s spin is that the glass is half full. Both spins are fundamentally true statements from a different perspective. And that is what...

APS Leadership and Moral Courage

For twelve years, I have tried to establish for the Leadership of the APS, honest accountability to the same standard of conduct that applies to students. I left my Character Counts training 12 years ago, believing that Character Counts was the best shot we ever had, ever...

West side “screwing” still on the table

I don’t know why people aren’t more upset. The bond issue passed. And a lot of people think that west side interests would be served by splitting from APS. APS says, if you split, we can keep the bond money. APS Lawyer Art Melendrez explained how it works. The...

APS should clean house…

… wrote Joline Gutierrez Krueger of the Trib. APS has “homework” was the Journal’s pathetic stab at the issue. The thrust of Krueger’s article was that APS should clean house before the next bond election; or face the possibility of losing. The premise is sound....

APS: “Breaking the faith” still on the table.

The APS axis, eight people and their lawyers, sit a top a vast empire. There are at least a few people on the west side, who believe the best interests of their community would be served by a division of that empire. The counter attack to preserve the empire includes the...

APS sleight of hand.

Before the school bond issue election; voters were assured by pretty much everyone that, the election was about kids/buildings, it was not about APS Leadership. Now that the bond issue has passed, 57% of a frighteningly low turnout has apparently endorsed APS Leadership as...

DeLayo and Rowe duck the public forum

It would appear that board members DeLayo and Rowe do not want to look in constituents eyes when the question is asked; will you be held honestly accountable to the same code of ethics that applies to students? So much for modeling courage.

The problem is global, APS is only one example.

The single worst problem in public service is incompetence and corruption. Both of which exist because we have failed to provide for honest accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct. The axis of the school board, administration, and Modrall, fundamentally public...

So, I guess asking you to resign is out of the question?

For the fifth time in as many board meetings, the board and administration refused to answer the question. As stewards of 351 million dollars and as the role models for 98,000 of our sons and daughters, will you hold yourself honestly accountable to the same standard of...

Council passes (minimal) Ethics Revisions

The city council has identified a very few of the most egregious and least defensible examples of ethical misconduct, and has made them illegal. This apparently is the sum total of the council’s response to the widely recognized demand for a higher standard for public...

Character Counts?? rally

If we believe that character counts; then we have the moral authority to expect our children to hold them selves accountable to that standard as well. If we hold our children accountable to a standard, any standard, we are obligated to hold our selves accountable to the same...