APS has a Chief Administrative Officer

He is Superintendent Winston Brooks.

It is his responsibility to ensure that there are adequate standards of conduct and competence for all of his subordinates. It is his responsibility to ensure that there is honest accountability to those standards.

The easiest and most accurate and honest method to evaluate standards and accountability is to hire impartial auditors to investigate and report upon both. It would be called an administrative standards and accountability audit.

Reasonably, the Superintendent's contract would include satisfactory performance on an annual audit.

There is no reason not to conduct such an audit right now, except that the administration of the APS would fail the audit, and the need to keep that fact secret from stakeholders.

Reasonable questions, that speak directly to two of the three responsibilities of the school board;

1. policy making, and
   
2. hiring a superintendent

and which should be put to the candidates for the school board are then;

1. Will you create a policy that requires annual impartial administrative accountability audits? and
2. Will you make satisfactory performance on those audits, an integral part of the decision making process surrounding the renewal of the Superintendent's contract?

If not, why not?