Where are the public forums for the school board elections?

Will the February 3rd school board election, and the attendant issues be kept entirely secret from voters?

It is a fair question.

As far as I know, there is not a single public forum scheduled.

The Journal, 3 days before early voting begins, has yet to do anything beyond identifying the candidates on filing day, late last month.

I can see why incumbents Paula Maes and MaryLee Martin would rather not answer any questions in public, about the many problems that have occurred on their watch;

1. How many tax dollars have gone missing in the APS Finance Division due to their inadequate standards, accountability,and record keeping?
2. Was there criminal misconduct revealed by the scathing audit by Meyners and Co?
3. Why is APS spending a secret? How many tax dollars have been wasted at the Uptown Administrative Complex and on other boondoggles?
4. Why won't they support an impartial audit of administrative standards and accountability?
5. Why has two year old evidence of felony criminal misconduct in the leadership of the APS (police department) still not been surrendered to the DA's office?
6. Why are the records of the relationship between Paula Maes' husband's law firm, Modrall, and the millions of tax dollars funneled to it, secret from public knowledge?
   
7. Why have these two board members repeatedly refused accountability as role models of the student standard of conduct?
8. Why won't these two board members agree to meet with stakeholders for the purpose of answering their legitimate questions?

Why isn't Paula Maes going to have to publicly defend her opposition to any audit that names corrupt and or incompetent administrators and board members by name?

Why isn't MaryLee Martin going to have to publicly defend her failure to prevent the second major corruption scandal in the APS Police Department, during her tenure on the school board?

I can see why Paula Maes and MaryLee Martin would hide from these questions and others. I just can't see why anyone else would rather the whole thing be kept secret from voters.

Certainly not their opponents. What about their right to have their positions, ideas, and ideals presented to voter stakeholders by the Journal?

Do voters have a right to know that at least two candidates would press for an immediate, impartial, full scale audit of the leadership of the APS; a diametrically opposite position from their opponents?

Do voters have a right to know that at least two candidates have stated on the record, that they are willing to be held honestly accountable as role models of the student standard of conduct, including the requirement to answer any legitimate question candidly, forthrightly and honestly?

How can the folks that run the Journal, justify their failure to ask important questions and share the responses with voters?

What more important service does a newspaper provide for
democracy, than fully informing voters?

Is the leadership of the Journal corrupt?
or merely incompetent?