where's the beef?

I've been doing some longitudinal research on accountability issues and the administration of public power and resources in the aps.

it becomes immediately apparent that there is a long history of specific allegations of incompetence and corruption in the administration of the aps.

if one studies the district's record; one finds little substantive change in policies or procedures in response to documented deficiencies.

as one example; the council of great city schools did an audit of the administration of the aps in response to a corruption scandal that had rocked the m&o division. perhaps as much as a half million tax dollars were lost. a year later, another hundred and fifty thousand dollars were lost when an aps administrator failed to get required documents to the district's insuror on time.

the audit of the administration revealed; administrative evaluation procedures are subjective and unrelated to promotion or step placement.

in response to a request for public records, the district failed to produce any public record that demonstrates that the administration has responded to the audit by changing any policy, procedure, or regulation affecting their administration of public power and resources.

the leadership of the aps is damned by their record. they have no choice but to hide it.

that is why they cloud the record with a nearly useless website, the removal of the public forum from the public record, and the deliberate distortion of the broadcast record of board meetings/public forums.

their true intentions are manifest in their response to questions about public resources and about their public service.

they continue to refuse to provide candid, forthright, and honest responses to legitimate questions.

• why did they change board policy in order to lower their own standard of conduct?
• why is their own standard of conduct lower than the standard that they enforce upon students?
• what of role modeling? what of leadership by personal example?
• why will they not hold themselves honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct? by a system overwhich they have no control. and even against their will.

they refuse to produce public records of the spending of public resources

• at the modrall law firm
• with the journal or trib
• nor will they surrender a candid, forthright, and honest accounting of the administration of the public trust and treasure at the uptown administrative complex

they won't come clean on gil lovato and the record of the leadership's use of its publicly funded, private police force to create a culture of fear of retribution and retaliation.

if you are looking for signs of change; there aren't any.
if you are looking for signs of the intention to change; there aren't any.

marty esquivel kicked a ball onto the field two weeks ago, the administrative accountability audit.

who has kicked it since?

can no one see the ball? does no one care whether the goal is scored for accountability, or against it?

if no one kicks the ball at all, "against accountability" wins by default

marty chavez either can't see the ball; or won't kick it.

nor will teri cole and the chamber of commerce

nor any city councilor, or other elected official

nor any other board member, senior administrator, or modrall

nor the teacher and employee unions

nor any group advocating for citizen or voter rights

nor any student advocate, pastor, or scout group leader

nor the journal, the trib,or any other blogger

nor ...

nor the character counts leadership council



if we really, and I mean really want our children to grow up to embrace honor and courage and character; someone has to show them what it looks like; and by their personal example.

there is no equivalent gesture.

is it really to much to expect educators (public servants) to be honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct during their duty day?

if, at the next board meeting, marty esquivel stands up in support of an accountability audit; will he be standing alone?


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