APS' "Iron Lady", Lillian Barna

(As best I am able to recollect)

Lillian Barna was the APS' Superintendent from 1985 to 1988. She was hired to deal with the issue of APS administrative sprawl.

She fired around 55 administrators before she
was herself, fired. Fired I would suppose,
by the remaining good ole boys; in their own
self defense.

Upon her departure, the slots grew back of course
and with a vengeance.

Whole new buildings became necessary to house them all.

The APS edifice of corruption and incompetence,

the Uptown Administrative Complex, stands in plain view.

The lesson is; pruning a weed does not kill it.
Treating symptoms does not cure disease.

As late as their latest audit by the Council of the Great City Schools, the leadership of the APS is composed of individuals who are not required to demonstrate by any objective means, that they are in any way qualified to hold the positions they hold.

The CotGCS wrote that the good ole boys in the APS are evaluated according to a system that is "subjective and unrelated to promotions or step placement."

The CotGCS wrote that the good ole boys except themselves from accountability by maintaining a "culture of retribution and retaliation."


You have to take out the good ole boys if you want to solve the problem.

The good ole boys will be taken out by an immediate and impartial forensic audit. They are damned by their records of public corruption and incompetence.


Every lousy stinking one of them.



They win if, and only if, they can avoid an audit.


The Journal and Trib will continue
to do what ever they can to help of course.