according to the Trib, criticized the board for not resolving the gun issue and not endorsing the commission's work.
"This is a classic example of what the mayor has been talking about. This school board won't make the hard decisions. They put everything off. They don't take a stand," he said. (emphasis added)
Well if that ain't the pot callin the kettle black;
Marty Chavez doesn't have the balls to take a stand
on the scope of the APS Administrative Accountability Audit.
And he doesn't have the balls to take a stand
on the APS leadership's renunciation of the student standard of conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts.
Who is he to chide anyone on taking a stand.
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Beleive me, please, when I say the following is not defending the mayor's position, only trying to clarify how deep the "quagmire" can get.
MAyors traditionally keep a distance per se from school boards except for idiot things like cutting ribbons and doing pep speaches.
If you llok at the chart of government, you will see that APS reports to the state Ed department, then goes through 2 other NM ED executives before going to the governor.
In some ways, APS can push around the NM Ed department because they have the highest enrollment in the state, and numbers are power in many different ways.
The mayor's office could investigate how the city's tax dollars are being utilized by APS, but this would involve cooperation of investigation with the state, which will be little or no help in most situations.
Should the mayor's office get Veronica Garcia's attention, and even the governor's, then they will do their back-audit back to the state Ed department.
This is a closed-loop situation and there are very little provisions for the mayor to take actual, real action of investigation. Furthermore, he can't hold back the funds to a state run againcy,a nd he can't incite the citizens against the school board because that can't get out of hand VERY quickly, and it could lead to the temporary closure of schools.
It may seem like an easy thing to think the mayor can exert pressure upon APS, but in reality, he really doesn't have any authority, other than to relaease an emergency declaration,... which is very serious.
Hope that makes sense.
He can draw attention to the issue. The newspapers are not writing about the accountability audit. If Chavez stood up publicly; the papers would write about it.
He chooses not to stand up to be counted.
I am particularly peeved because he represents himself to be a Character Counts Advocate; which carries with it some dues.
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