"Editorial: APS has long way to go to restore credibility"

According to the editorial in this evening's Trib,
editors believe that the leadership of the APS
lacks credibility.

In suggesting that the leadership of the APS has a long way to go in restoring it's credibility; the editor implies that there is a happenstance that will in and of itself, by itself, restore the credibility of the leadership.. The leadership of the APS will do some one thing right, after which public, staff and faculty confidence will be restored.

The editors did not suggest what that would be. They implied it would be something like;

"... took the right action Wednesday by announcing that the district has hired outside auditors to examine... the main concern... raised by Boothe, a certified public accountant.

Also in the APS board's favor: ...it improved morale in the APS security...

A hundred such actions will not restore credibility.

There is one thing that will restore credibility'
there will be an announcement of audit results
by a respected and impartial auditor, stating that;

the leadership of the APS has been thoroughly, impartially competently audited.

It has been found that APS leadership is honestly accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence, as public servants.

And that corruption and incompetence
do not exist in the leadership of the APS.

Such a report would restore credibility rather immediately.

That will not be the report from the first audit.

It could very well be the report from the second.

Especially, if the new superintendent's job depended it.



If there is no first audit, there will never be a clean audit.

The Journal and Trib can begin to restore their own credibility by beginning to report credibly on the controversy over the scope of the audit.

It will not be fully restored; until they report credibly on their heretofore failure to report credibly on the audit.