Get Out of Jail Free cards for senior administrators and board members

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.

They refuse to accept accountability to any meaningful standard of conduct.

Yet they are the stewards of hundreds of millions of tax dollars.

When the Council of Great City Schools audited APS after the M&O corruption scandal, they reported that the evaluations of APS administrators were subjective and unrelated to promotion or step placement.

I will paraphrase their point.

People are being promoted into positions of responsibility based on evaluations that were subjective; “They're cool, we'll make them a Director of Something”. And then the Director of Something is given responsibility for spending a bunch of tax dollars. Apparently they are not required to offer any objective proof that that they are in any way qualified to spend money in the best interests of students. They are not enjoined from spending it unethically. They are accountable to no standard of conduct that uses the word ethical.

Is there evidence of incompetence? How much more to you need?

It is the Peter Principle on steroids. No one is accountable for anything. They are not accountable at least in an “honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct” kind of way.

How much (more) money do you want to put into the hands of someone who won’t even look you in the eye when they refuse to hold themselves honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct.

Show me where the axis of APS senior administrators, Board Members and Modrall, have ever fought to hold themselves honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct.

Their record is one of dodging accountability.

It costs money to dodge accountability.

Have tax dollars been misspent?

Did dollars destined for the interests of students, get spent instead in the interests of senior administrators, board members, and their lawyers. Should taxpayers pay for the defense lawyers of those who are accused of deliberately betraying the public interests? If their lawyers were part of it, aren’t taxpayers paying these lawyers to defend themselves against allegations that they have betrayed the public trust as well?

Does unwitting taxpayer support for “education” pay for Get Out of Jail Free cards for administrators and board members?