There are two kinds of dollars spent in the APS; operational and capital. Capital dollars buy buildings, operational dollars are spent (mostly) on salaries and in classrooms. Wasting any money hurts students, wasting operational dollars hurts students and teachers directly.
APS Supt Winston Brooks has the authority to spend operational funds in the classroom for the benefit of students, or to spend them instead, on unscrupulous lawyers in an effort to hide his and others' public corruption.
Winston Brooks is giving operations funds to Modrall lawyers to hide the Caswell Report. The Caswell Report names names of corrupt APS senior administrators. It names names of senior administrators who committed felonies which are being hidden from the District Attorney, link.
Students and teachers will do without, in order that APS senior administrators can escape the consequences of felony criminal misconduct within their public service.
He spends with the blessing of the entire school board.
Board Member Paula Maes spoke for the board when she said, (we) will never agree to any audit that individually identifies corrupt or incompetent administrators or board members.
I had hoped that Journal editors, Kent Walz, Ellen Marks, and D'val Westphal, and KOAT TV news director Sue Stephens could be shamed into telling the truth as part of the discourse leading up to the School Board Elections.
It turns out I was wrong, their corruption and resolve to hide the truth from voters in order to re-elect Marty Esquivel exceeded even my cynicism.
They will all emerge from the election unscathed.
The real victims of their corruption are too young to vote.
Walz et al, hid from public knowledge for the entire election;
- Esquivel and Brooks efforts to hide the Caswell report on corruption in the APS Police Department,
- Esquivel and Brooks abandonment of their obligations as the senior-most role models of the student standards of conduct, and
- Esquivel and Brooks efforts to deny due process to hundreds of whistle blower complaints against Brooks and other administrators.
It seems just a little incredible, even in a state as corrupt as New Mexico. But then those who expect only corruption heaped upon corruption are rarely, if ever, disappointed.
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Mark Bralley
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