"Absolutely!" he said, without a moment's hesitation.

The question that I had asked Mayor Marty Chavez was,

Can we offer the fully one half of students in the APS
who will drop out, something beside a curriculum
driven by the NCLB?

Because education is incredibly expensive, and because there
is not money enough to fund even one model, funding a second
model, for all practical intents and purposes, is "absolutely"
impossible.

It is not so much that Chavez gave an untruthful answer, as it is
that, he did it with such facility and so glibly.