Unfolding Stories

The Journal's Charlie Moore says he will write about the controversy over the scope of the upcoming audit as it unfolds.

It is not yet unfolded enough?

Several years ago, Board Member Robert Lucero tabled a motion before the board. The motion would have made stonewalling on issues of public interest, a violation of an enforceable policy.

At about the same time, Board Member Mary Lee Martin disposed of a motion which would have made unethical conduct by members of the leadership of the APS, a violation of an enforceable policy.

Since that time; the board has created a whistle blower policy that, deliberately, offers no protection to those who expose ethical misconduct, incompetence and most kinds of criminal misconduct, by members of the leadership of the APS.

They rewrote the employee code of conduct. They removed the part where it said; in no case shall the standard of conduct for adults be lower than the standard for students.; effectively abdicating as the senior role models of the student standard of conduct.

They had their (our) insurance premiums raised by the districts insurers because the leadership of the APS spends way more money on litigation than other districts in similar circumstances. That "more money" going to a law firm run by the School Board President's husband.

They have been impartially audited and found to be unaccountable to any meaningful standard of conduct.

Board President Paula Maes announced in open meeting that she will not allow individual administrators, for example Tom Savage, to be held accountable for their conduct and competence as public servants, by means of an honest full scale audit of the public interests in the public schools.

They are hiding information of public interest from public knowledge. Taxpayers are paying the district's lawyers to litigate exception to the law for senior administrators and board members.

• As a result, the public still has not seen documents that represent the truth about Gradegate,
• nor have they seen the public records of the public corruption and criminal conspiracy in the leadership of the APS Police Department,
• nor have they seen the evidence of the squandering of the public trust and treasure in the Uptown Administrative Complex;
• nor do they know how much money Paula Maes has made off of the APS/Modrall,
• nor do they know how much money, how many tax dollars are diverted to the Journal and the Trib for advertising, and whatever else that kind of money can buy.

Mr. Moore, it is unfolded a mile wide and a foot deep; exactly how far must this unfold before the Journal begins to fulfill its obligation to inform stakeholders about the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS?