to my email to them. I had pointed out that they had misreported a substantial fact in their story on the NM PED's report on grade gate.
Friday, June 22, 2007
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- The final report of the Council of Great City Scho...
- APS Could End Up With Certified Police Force.
- Elsy Fiero will take the heat for gradegate
- The scandal in the APS PD
- I would like to know
- on the loss of the public forum
- Beth Everitt must resist any audit of any departme...
- is Teresa Cordova still calling the shots?
- Rio Grande Grade Change needs closer look
- MacArthur Principal to retire
- an honor is worth exactly as much
- I would like to invite my readers' attention
- Teresa Cordova's "no comment" on gradegate
- if the school board has to get a subpoena,
- NM Educator Ethics Bureau Director Paul Calderon
- What is your take on the Cordova Coach debacle?
- the Journal chose not to respond
- Liar? ??
- it would cost APS somewhere between $.37 and $4.00
- George McFall, of the Modrall law firm
- CoGCS report on the APS PD released
- NMPED investigation; corrupt, incompetent, or both?
- Beth Everitt says that it is unlikely that we will...
- coulda, woulda, shoulda
- the truth on the grade change; still missing.
- Robert Lucero owes an apology
- Monica Armenta has pocketed a cool $4,000 plus ben...
- understatement of the year
- APS Police Department likened to a hot potato
- the CoGCS review, in other words
- "APS Cops and Guns Top Forum Concerns"
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- Darren White's retraction is in order
- APS' news release on the Community Safety Commissi...
- Ouch - from the CoGCS review of the APSPD
- NMIPRA request for APSPD review records
- Everitt pushes back the deadline for APSPD; and se...
- Jim Villanucci and Richard Eeds said;
- Disappointed, I am;
- Comment on a comment
- Principals as administrators and master educators
- Arbitration will be conducted in secret.
- "Let my public school students go"
- Learning from Charter Schools
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- Journal editors confuse APS' open meetings with ac...
- Monica Armenta's grade
- APS' new roofing manager
- Something is fishy; NMIPRA request
- Dear Mr. Attorney General
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- Will Monica Armenta walk her talk?
- NMIPRA training shelved until next fall
- Research, Development, and Accountability
- George Washington
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- communication is worthless
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- We would like to schedule an appointment, please
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- request for public records
- Cynthia West will testify for APS against Lovato
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- a culture of fear of retaliation and retribution
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- "My goal is not to take everybody down."
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- Lovato's body map worth a cool 1/2M
- At the cost equivalent of more than three teachers
- you have to admit; do you not?
- In the weeks just before the scandal broke;
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- update for the following post; gradegate policy ch...
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- the public forum was nearly perfect
- Principal selection committees
- when Venegas and Everitt were scrambling for excuses
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- Everitt's magic cure will take 3 years!
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- I have written about the opposition facing Marty E...
- City councilors want a raise
- Anyone who has made a public statement
- Gil Lovato is being paid almost forty thousand tax...
- It is time to call the question
- Failing Schools need Proven Leaders
- APS' Brad WInter
- the next public forum
- there is a lot of upset about the red light cameras
- Board Meeting, next Wednesday
- confusion leads to inaction
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FYI This is in the Trib today. I especially enjoyed the 4th bullet
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Outside review
In its recent review of the Albuquerque Public Schools police, the Council of Great City schools recommended contracting with the Albuquerque Police Department or the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department for law enforcement and changing the district police department into a safety and security arm. On June 21, more details of the council's findings were made public, including:
• APS police uniformly expressed the desire that the department be transferred to another police agency.
• Because of low salaries compared with other police agencies, APS is viewed as an employer of last resort.
• The force chronically lacks young officers who can relate to students.
• Low salaries, inadequate equipment and poor relations with the human resources department have created mistrust of the district administration and low morale.
• In an emergency, officers must go through a cumbersome chain of command before they can retrieve firearms locked in trunks.
• There is a lack of standard codes for notifying staff and students in emergency situations.
• No policy about school key distribution leads to an estimated 3,000 alarm calls per weekend.
• APS police have used questionable methods to try to improve staff compensations, such as promoting an excessive number of sergeants, giving unearned comp time, providing a higher than normal clothing allowance and paying inappropriate shift differentials.
Source: Council of the Great City Schools
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