Photo by Craig Fritz, Tribune
The "march of the lemons" is a phrase often heard in the APS. It usually refers to bad teachers who are allowed to simply move to another school rather than be held accountable for some incompetence or misconduct.
According to the Trib, (link) Beth Everitt's APS is;
- a mediocre school district,
- that cannot rid itself of bad teachers,
- where students and staff do not feel safe, (*)
- with an administration that does not listen to stakeholders, and
- with a superintendent and administration that lacks "ethics".
- lacks any system of honest accountability for conduct or competence,
- is without the will to hold anyone personally accountable, and
- is without the will to conduct an immediate full scale forensic audit.
- the scandal in the APS police department,
- the scandal in the financial department,
- gradegate,
- the principal shuffle, or
- the squandering of the public trust and treasure at the Uptown Administrative Complex.
- school board policy,
- State Board of Education regulations, and
- State Law.
At what legal meeting of the board, was it decided that Beth Everitt will be allowed to march,
- without the required evaluation, and
- without an honest full scale forensic audit of her administration of the public interests and resources in the APS?
a disservice to the process, and to stakeholders,
of epic proportion.
The public interest has been betrayed by whomever at the Journal, Trib, KKOB, KOB, KOAT, and KRQE has decided that each of those "news" outlets will not investigate or report upon the march of this particular lemon.
*APS has routinely reported to the community that students feel safe at school. That claim would seem to be directly refuted by an honest and impartial scientific poll. The Council of the Great City Schools, in a recent audit, reported that the leadership of the APS has a culture of under reporting crime statistics to the community; in an effort to deliberately deceive stakeholders about safety at school.
3 comments:
Aren't you glad that the Trib is finally reporting on this? Don't you think people in other states where Beth Everett applies can look up your statements and the newspaper articles on the web?
I doubt that search committee do very much at all, informally.
I suspect that they don't even look at anything that hasn't been vetted by a bunch of lawyers first.
I guess I missed the Trib report. As far as I can tell, the media isn't reporting very much of anything.
A Forensic Audit is scary to those criminals that thought they would never get their finances looked at closely, that thought they had "gotten away with it".
It is scary to those APS employees who are crooked since they cannot skew the numbers nor spin the truth when an outside auditor unbeholden to them for a job says "this money was stolen by [Insert APS Employee Here]" Financial transactions that are subject to court order are stupendous ways of verifying income sources and paths of cash flows, of isolating money earned from legitimate enterprises and those earned by graft and corruption.
There is a financial program that the Feds use that maps out personal and financial data and points out money flows among and between a mass of investigatory targets. The data is downloaded from banks' databases. Such a thing unleashed on APS and other state governments would uncover stupendous amounts of graft and fraud.
I know, I have been told I live in a dream world before. But if enough good people stand up and ask for a thing from government, in this case accountability and ethical use of educational funds, it is at least possible in America. New Mexico is behind as compared to other states in educational performance.
If we use the money allocated for actual educational purposes rather than lining the pockets of shucksters and thieves in administrator's suits, we might get more kids to graduate from high school. More kids might then go to college. New Mexico IQs and opportunities might increase.
J. Lopez
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