"Secret" school board meeting today.

Some will argue, the meeting isn't "secret" because it is posted
on line, and therefore it isn't secret at all.

I continue to argue it is a secret meeting because their need
is to keep secret what it is they are doing.

They are getting together to complete their evaluation of
APS Superintendent Winston Brooks.

They will conclude that he is doing a great job.

To conclude otherwise would be to point to their own failure
when they hired him, and when they extended his contract
before he had even one year in the job, link.

That they are in a very real sense, evaluating themselves,
creates an "apparent conflict of interest", an activity that is
expressly and specifically prohibited by their own Code of
Ethics; a code that by their own admission is completely and
utterly unenforceable.

A recent audit by the Council of the Great City Schools
revealed that APS' administrative evaluations were
"subjective and unrelated to promotion and step placement."

Apparently they still are; no objective data was gathered
in preparation for this evaluation; there was no impartial
subordinate evaluation for example, that will be used in the
process.

The same audit revealed that the leadership of the APS
rarely changed policy in response to audit findings.

Were the audit done again, it won't be, it would show that
nothing has changed.

And likely, nothing ever will. A recent poll revealed that
voters are likely to approve another $617M in bonds and
mill levies, with no strings attached.