APS Board Approves Abdication

The APS Board of Education has formally renounced its responsibility to provide due process for whistleblower complaints. It is unclear from their post, link, at which meeting they took the vote to betray our trust.

They removed language from APS School Board Policy which had read;

The Audit Committee will review and approve
any whistleblower complaints.

They replaced specific and explicit language that guaranteed whistleblowers due process after the administration adjudicated complaints against itself, with their worthless commitment to revisit the obligation "sometime";

Duties and responsibilities of each committee shall be
further set forth in either Board of Education policy or
board procedural directive.

That their word is worthless is proven by their handling of the Role Modeling Clause. They promised to discuss it openly and honestly, and then it disappeared from their agenda without notice or discussion; a blatant betrayal of the trust placed in them.

The Role Modeling Clause; which they removed from their own code of conduct, used to read;

In no case shall the standards of conduct for an adult
be lower than the standards of conduct for students.

And now you can see why they would not want to have that language in their code of conduct.