Tempest in a teapot

Journal education reporter Andrea Schoellkopf, arrived at the
school board meeting too late to hear Monica Armenta explain
how she and her Communications Department have
schmoozed the local media into downplaying negative stories
about the APS. link

She missed the part where I argued that if the District really
wants to improve public perception of the APS (honestly),
they will begin an impartial standards and accountability audit
of the entire leadership of the APS, which reports to the public
record.

I also pointed out that if even one single administrator or
board member was willing to step up as a role model of the
Student Standards of Conduct, the standards and accountability
issue would be laid to rest once and for all.

It would not have made much difference if Schoellkopf had
arrived earlier, she still has not, and will not report on any
aspect of the ethics and accountability scandal in the APS.
Per an apparent agreement between the Journal and the APS,
the Journal will no longer investigate and report upon any
of the real problems in the APS.

So she instead wrote under an above the fold, page wide
headline, about APS' tempest in a teapot, wikilink;
how the District has decided to move the start of school for
students, back by three days. link

As if anyone really cares when school starts, or if that earlier
start will have any impact at all on any of the issues that the
APS are trying to deal with.