three issues are raised, three solutions are proposed

according to the journal; santa fe legislators are concerned about aps’ size, control and accountability, and proportional spending.

aps is large. aps is unresponsive. the proposed solution is to make aps responsive by breaking it into smaller pieces.

the solution will not work because the premise is flawed. while there appears to be a relationship between district size and the lack of responsiveness; it is at most coincidental. it is not a "bureaucracy" that is or isn't responsive, it is individual people who are or are not.

the size of the bureaucracy above or around is irrelevant. therefore changing the size of the bureaucracy does not address the problem.

when individual public servants are held accountable for their responses; the quality of the responses will improve.

on the issue of allowing the mayor to appoint school board members; the premise is that the mayor will be more accountable to the people than the school board is. he is not.

he will not now stand on the record and demand an accountability audit of the aps. if he will not audit now when the need is so obvious; will he ever?

he will not demand an audit; because his administration can not stand an audit.

juggling school system control between the hands of public servants, not one of whom will submit to transparent accountability for their public service, serves no practical purpose. it solves nothing.

accountability can be created only by establishing a transparent system, over which public servants have no control; by which they will be held accountable for their competence; even against their will. there is no equivalent solution.

proportional spending, requiring aps to spend the same proportion on administration as "similar" districts do, is a simplistic solution. The flawed premise is that school districts are spending well if they are spending similarly.

whether or not school districts spend similarly is irrelevant. the question is, is the school district is spending the money well? the solution is to scrutinize spending;

hold the administration transparently accountable for the administration of the public resources and interests.

any solution the does not include transparent accountability to a meaningful standard of conduct for public servants; will not solve the problem. and it is being suggested for some other purpose than addressing accountability issues in the aps; a contrary purpose.