Albuquerque's Charter Vocational High School, offers an example of district splitting. ACVHS split into its own "district". They bought their own buildings, they hired their own superintendent, and then they started cooking the books. Update 2/16/10, I am reminded that ACHVS rented their buildings. Also that technically, a charter school doesn't represent a "split district", though the effect is the same)
ACVHS Superintendent Danny Moon's trial started today, link.
Why did things get so out of hand at ACVHS?
They got out of hand, because APS is a bunch of good ol' boys covering each others asses. Watch Larry Barker's video. Watch the (APS) administrators, Bruce Smith and Bettina Ekland, not step up to legitimate questions about the public interests and about their public service.
Watch them refuse to answer legitimate questions.
There is not one single administrator in the entire APS accountable to any standard of conduct that requires them to respond to legitimate questions about their conduct or competence.
It isn't about the size of the districts, it is about unequivocal standards and inescapable accountability.
Without honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence, school districts will continue to squander our power, our trust and our treasure; without consequence.
And it doesn't make a bit of difference whether it is one room school house,
Endbar; The gentleman who blew the whistle on the corruption at ACVHS was a security guard. He was severely beaten in the parking lot of the school one day; he believes in retaliation for pointing to the corruption.
Also, in apparent retaliation, a criminal background check was done on him. The checking constituted a fourth degree felony as there was no good and ethical reason to criminally invade his privacy.
Another victim of the illegal background checks was the fiancee of a senior APS Administrator Tom Savage.
He is the gentlemen that School Board Member Paula Maes mentioned when she revealed, she "would never agree to any audit" that individually identified corrupt or incompetent administrators, like for example; Tom Savage.
At any rate, none of these illegal background checks could have been done without the aid and abet of the APS Police Department, link. Three years later, the APS PD is "still investigating" criminal misconduct in the APS PD; long after statutes of limitation have expired on felony criminal misconduct.
photo Mark Bralley
2 comments:
Wow, you have some unresolved issues dude! To make sweeping generalizations and downright false accusations and give information isn't even the scariest part of this blog. You don't have the facts correct, you say "not a single administrator in the entire" district is accountable to any standard of conduct, wow how do you know that?
You weren't there when the security guard was attacked, were you? The scariest part and sadest part is your rant is indicitive of just one more adult so jaded and misguided that they spend all their time and energy focusing on not changing anything that is good for kids. NOt once do you mention students. Too bad you cant funnel this negative energy into something productive. +
You don't read closely enough.
What I wrote was;
"There is not one single administrator in the entire APS accountable to any standard of conduct that requires them to respond to legitimate questions about their conduct or competence.
You point to that standard and I will eat my words. Find their website at http://www.aps.edu.
You won't find one. There hasn't been one since they struck the language in their own code of conduct which read; "in no case shall the standard of conduct for an adult be lower than the standards for students."
I didn't write about students because the post has nothing to do with students; they are victims as well.
ACVHS was, maybe still is good for kids. I know, I used to teach there.
You are a narrow minded idiot - find somewhere else to read.
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