School Board Meeting Agenda bears watching

The regularly scheduled school board meeting (first and third Wednesdays) has been canceled and a Special Meeting scheduled in its place, but an hour earlier, 4 pm.

The agenda is still not posted of course.

We need to pay attention, because in one of these meetings
the board is going to vote to extend Winston Brooks' contract until 2014.

The extension of Brooks' golden parachute should be opposed, vigorously.

There is no objective evidence that Brooks is doing a "good" job, much less such a good job that his golden parachute should extend three years into the future.

To the contrary, there is ample evidence that Brooks should be terminated. If for no other reason than that he is pulling money out of classrooms to pay Modrall lawyers to litigate an exception to the Inspection of Public Records Act in order to hide the Caswell Report from public knowledge.

The Caswell Report (2007) names the names of APS senior administrators who committed felony criminal misconduct, link. Their names (and the evidence) are still being hidden from the District Attorney and likely criminal prosecution, by Marty Esquivel, Winston Brooks and the rest of the leadership of the APS. They have hidden the Report and evidence for so long that statutes of limitation have expired on some, maybe all, of the criminal misconduct.

They could not, and cannot continue to hide the evidence,
without the ongoing aid and abet of Journal editors Kent Walz,
Ellen Marks, D'Val Westphal, and KOAT TV news director
Sue Stephens.

Brooks evaluation by the board was conducted in secret.
I am told that he managed to meet with board members
individually for the evaluations rather than facing the board
as a whole. His strategy denied board members the opportunity to reinforce each others' reservations and complaints.

Can anyone say, "divide and conquer"?

No one ever accused him of being stupid, just cowardly,
corrupt and a bully.




photo Mark Bralley