Should the Legislature Give APS Any Money At All?

The leadership of the APS is in Santa Fe looking for a billion dollars or so, to play with next year.

If you were a legislator, would you give it to them;

knowing that the stewards of that billion dollars or so,

are not honestly accountable to even a single meaningful
standard of conduct or competence; and

that over the period of the last two years,

they have deliberately and methodically excepted themselves from every single meaningful standard of conduct that applies to public servants and educators; and

if you knew that the Council of the Great City Schools
wrote that APS administrative evaluations are
subjective and unrelated to promotion and step placement.

And that the leadership of the APS is a good ole boys club;

and they are accountable to no one except each other?


Or would you say,

before you get another dime of taxpayers' money,
there will be a full scale forensic accountability audit
of the administration of public power and resources
by the leadership of the APS?

Why won't state legislators protect the public interests
in the APS?

Is it because the legislature is a good ole boys club too;

and because there is reciprocity* between clubs
and between club members from different clubs?

Darren White's BCSO club, Kari Brandenburg's DA's club;
Tommy Lang's Publishers club, APS leadership,
Character Counts Leadership Council,
the rest of the media,
...


*A mutual or cooperative interchange of favors or privileges,
especially the exchange of rights or privileges between
APS senior administrators, school board members,
state legislators, and newspaper publishers.