New Superintendent to Make $260K

If one could actually hire a person
who could single handedly fix the APS,
$260K would be a steal.

But there is no such person. If there were;
there would be school districts routinely succeeding.
There are not, name one.

APS is a good old boys club;
like most old bureaucracies.

When the Council of the Great City Schools audited the APS; they found that administrative evaluations were
"... subjective and unrelated to promotion or step placement."

Good old boys get promoted without demonstrating by any objective means, that they are in any way competent to do the jobs into which they are promoted.

The Council of the Great City Schools also reported that the leadership of the APS had "... a culture of retribution and retaliation."against those who challenge their conduct or competence.

They cover each other's asses. You can't fight one
of them without fighting all of them, and all of their lawyers.

The Council of the Great City Schools reported that the leadership of the APS has " ... a culture of deliberately misleading the community.


They don't tell the truth.

Gold old boys put up with a lot incompetence and corruption in their fellow club members. That is why APS is performing so poorly. The gold old boys can't run a school district without scandals in every department. It is the natural consequence of failing to hold people accountable for their conduct and their competence.

It is the Peter Principle on steroids; fueled by corruption and incompetence.

The good old boys will not audit themselves. Any competent and impartial audit will reveal widespread incompetence and corruption.

The good old boys can survive anything but an audit.

If the leadership of the APS is not willing to conduct the audit, and remove incompetent and corrupt administrators; how do you expect the superintendent to do so?

Place a $260K dollar apple in a barrel with rotten apples, and it will rot.

There is no person who can do their job so well that everyone else doesn’t have to do their jobs as well.

If the community is not willing to disband the good old boys; nothing will change. You could pay the new superintendent a million dollars a year; and nothing will change.

They will not be disbanded except by a large enough group of people showing up at a public forum and demanding an immediate and full scale forensic audit of the APS.

And despite the deliberate and methodical efforts of the leadership of the APS and the media to prevent such an occurrence.