All we need is a simple audit.

At the end of every fiscal year, forensic auditors will be paid
whatever it costs, to ferret out corruption, incompetence,
and the practices that enable them, in the leadership of the APS.

They will look for inescapable accountability to unequivocal
standards of conduct and competence.

And then, they will report to the public record.
They will tell us the truth.

It would cost a few tens of thousands of dollars and
could save millions.

Not only that, but we would be doing a far better job of
protecting taxpayers' investment in their public schools and
in the education of 98,000 of their sons and daughters
in the APS.

There is no down side, except for the corrupt and the
incompetent in the leadership of the APS,
those whose records cannot stand scrutiny.

I propose that the Superintendent's contract contain a clause
that ties his continued employment to a clean audit every year.



If Winston Brooks
can't get that done,
then we need to find for us
a Superintendent who can.

Our power, our resources,
our call.



photo Mark Bralley