Throwing down the gauntlet

An outrage is on the agenda for the APS Policy Committee Meeting tonight; in the midst of an investigation by the Office of the State Auditor over the school board's failure to provide due process to whistleblower complaints, the Policy Committee is preparing to strike from board policy, their obligation to do so.

They will remove language which reads; the

Audit Committee will review and approve
any whistleblower complaints.

To date, more than 200 whistleblower complaints have been denied due process.

I have written the following to the Journal as a "news tip".

The Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education is going to vote to change school board policy at a policy committee meeting tonight.

They are currently being investigated by the Office of the State Auditor over the failure of their Audit Committee to provide due process for whistleblower complaints. School board policy currently reads; the Audit Committee will review and approve any whistle blower complaints. To date, they have not reviewed or approved the handling of even a single complaint; hundreds of complaints have been denied due process.

Tonight, in the midst of the SAO investigation of their failure to review and approve whistleblower complaints, they will vote to strike the language that requires them to do so.

It is an abdication of a fundamental responsibility to provide the people's check and balance over a rogue administrative branch of government.

I am in hope that you will investigate and report upon the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.

The remaining question; will the Journal investigate and report upon the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, or will our "newspaper of record" continue to ignore it?