APS school board candidate bounced from Board Meetings.

It had to do with a dispute over parliamentary authority.

APS 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 Board president.

Under Robert’s Rules of Order, it is at times appropriate to interrupt a meeting. An interruption that is provided for by the rules is not a disruption.

But if you are powerful, unaccountable, and so inclined, you can suspend the rules and declare the interruption a “disruption”. And then summon four members of your Praetorian Guard to escort the offender away. Twice.

One would think from reading board policy that board meetings are subject to Robert’s Rules of Order. Not so.

The final sentence manifests the fountain of the ethics and accountability issues in the APS Leadership; the belief that rules only apply until you want to do something else instead.