The Most Important Vote in the History of the APS School Board

On Thursday afternoon at 5pm, the policy committee will discuss and take action on the following agenda item;

Consideration of Administrative Audit / Peer Review.

The choice that will be made will determine the scope of the upcoming audit.

There are essentially two choices; one will keep the audit focused on the "system" only; the other will examine the both the system and the administrators that spend a billion tax dollars a year and guide the effort to educate 90,000 of this communities sons and daughters.

There is only one legitimate reason to select the former over the later; it will be marginally less expensive. The greater expense of a full scale audit is statistically inconsequential compared to a billion dollar budget; it is statistically inconsequential compared to the money that will be saved by identifying corrupt and incompetent administrators.

The real reason to limit the scope of the audit is to protect the personal interests of administrators and board members whose record is one of incompetence and/or corruption; a philosophically indefensible position.

Maes, Lucero, et al, have two choices; bury the real issue under red herring issues, and/or prevent the discussion of the issue entirely. They have prevented this issue from coming to the table for over a decade. This is the first time since the Board unanimously adopted Character Counts as their standard of conduct, that their lack of honest accountability to any standard of conduct at all has been slated for discussion.

Anyone who really cares about honest accountability in the administration of the public schools needs to attend the meeting, to look into Robert Lucero's weasely little face as he tries to prevent a discussion of an audit that will expose corruption and incompetence; the corrupt and the incompetent in the leadership of the APS.

If no one shows, he wins by default.