APS school board members admit to administrative fat, but are still unwilling to allow stakeholders to know the whole truth about it.

APS board members Marty Esquivel and Robert Lucero
were interviewed recently by KOB TV, link.

KOB reports;

Esquivel and fellow school board member Robert Lucero both agree that additional cuts can be made at central administration.

According to the standards of conduct these gentlemen establish and enforce upon students, stakeholders have a right to participate meaningfully in decisions that affect their interests.

Stakeholders are being denied those rights because they are being denied the whole truth they need in order to participate meaningfully.

If independent "efficiency experts" came into the administration of the APS, they would certainly find the fat in the administration, and their report would be a public record. The public could weigh in on the decisions of which fat gets trimmed and which does not.

The leadership of the APS will not allow independent review. They insist on doing their own internal reviews, keeping the results secret from stakeholders, and further insisting stakeholders "trust" them to do the right thing.

Board member Paula Maes
once revealed, she would
never agree to any audit
that individually named the
corrupt, the incompetent, and
the superfluous in the
administration of the APS.


She casts a large shadow
on the school board.

Board President Marty Esquivel
once built a compelling argument for
an independent audit of APS
administrative functions.

He was even price shopping for auditors.

Bowing to Maes insistence,
he simply dropped the issue.
He has not mentioned it since.

At this point, he won't even answer questions about an independent audit.

Member Robert Lucero
has never been inclined
to tell the truth.

It was he who tabled
a motion that would have
required board members
and administrators to
answer any legitimate
question, candidly,
forthrightly and honestly;
the standard of conduct to which students are held accountable.

Nobody else on the school board will stand up on the issue of an audit. They simply sit and pretend they haven't heard the question.

They wouldn't be hiding the truth except for a reason.
If nothing else, it simply looks bad, very very bad.

There is only one reason to not tell the truth to stakeholders,
and that is, a manifest lack of character and courage.

If there were another reason, they could, they would, point to it.




photos Mark Bralley