Paula Maes; "Shame, shame on us and how are we going to fix it."

This in response to another yet another audit of a major
APS department in trouble; Accounting. link

"As it turns out, the department is in such chaos,
reports documenting how the district spent its money
in 2006 and 2007 still haven’t been turned in."

The problem in the accounting department didn't pop up
last Thursday. It didn't even pop up last year.
It didn't even pop up in last two decades.

When I started teaching in the APS in the early 80's,
I had a great deal of trouble finding vendors who would take
APS Purchase Orders because APS was so slow to pay their
bills.


It was a problem almost three decades ago, and it still is
because the good ol' boys never say;
"Shame, shame on us , who is responsible,
and how to we hold them accountable?"

It's not the way that good ol' boys roll.

Administrators of over a billion tax dollars a year, have
met no objective test of their skill set in administrating
anything.

It is what the Council of the Great City Schools
auditors meant when they wrote;

"... APS administrative evaluations are subjective
and unrelated to promotion or step placement ..."

When I was running for the school board, a year ago,
I advocated for a full scale audit before voters
elected board members,
voted for a mill levy of over a hundred million dollars, and
voted on a bond issue of over three hundred million dollars.

Maes and the media knew about the accountability issues
and kept them secret from voters during voting on three
school board seats and almost a half a billion dollars.

Were she accountable to the student standard of conduct;
she, and they, would not have been able to get away with
deliberately deceiving stakeholders.

It isn't just about role modeling;
It's about transparent and honest accountability to
meaningful standards of conduct and competence.