APS; the public perception

Perception is reality, according to the perceiver.

There is a public perception of the APS;

• that is it failing to do an adequately good job of educating 90K young Albuquerqueans, and
• that there is corruption and incompetence in its leadership.

The perception rests on a solid foundation.

Every single impartial audit of the various divisions of the
APS, has revealed substantial administrative failures;
the audit of the M&O, the audit of the Police Department,
the audit of the Financial Division, being just the last three.

The former chief of the APS Police Department, Gil Lovato
said;

if the truth ever gets out, there won't be a single senior
APS administrator left standing.

Albuquerque's mayor, Marty Chavez said;

the lack of accountability in the APS is so grave as to
warrant changing state law in order to allow
the mayor to appoint school board members.

New Mexico governor, Bill Richardson, in a bid to gain
tax payer support for the APS, had to apologize first for
what he described as;

a state wide earned reputation for
its lack of financial accountability.

This in not my perception. It is the perception of virtually
everybody who is paying any attention at all.

And the people, upon whom we must rely,
to remedy the perception,
will not concede on the record, that it even exists.

That says something about the manner in which the problem
will be solved.

That says something about the quality of the fix.

That says something about the likelihood that the
problem will resurface.

It all says something.