Korte takes lonely tack

APS Board Member Kathy Kort made the front page today, link. It was upon her insistence that the Administration was compelled to produce a budget that interest holders can read and make sense of, link.

In order to fully appreciate the meaning of her move, it must be examined in light of APS' problem solving rubric. When a problem pops up in the APS, the top priority is to contain publicity. It is the inherent difficultly in solving a problem while hiding it, that has manifest itself in APS' failure to educate our children.

Korte has put the issue on the table where everyone can see it. She managed in fact to get it on the front page and above the fold.

There are few precedents.
When Marty Esquivel first
took his seat on the board,
he pointed to the need for
an independent administrative
audit.






School Board heavy hitter
Paula Maes set him straight,
saying she would "never agree
to any audit that individually
identified " corrupt and/or
incompetent administrators
or board members.






It was shortly thereafter,
Esquivel went over to the
dark side.

Now, he is now up to his
eyeballs in covering up the
ethics and accountability
scandal in the leadership
of the APS.




When David Robbins took his seat
on the board, one of the first things
he did was to put the APS Role
Modeling Clause on the table, link.

There was to be a public discussion
of replacing the clause in the employee
standards of conduct, the clause which
used to read;

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

The push back from the board member
and coward David Peercy and the rest of
the Policy and Instruction Committee, link,
pushed Robbins over to the dark side as well.

Robbins is a player in the cover up the
ethics and accountability scandal. He is
personally responsible for denying due
process to hundreds of whistle blower
complaints filed (primarily) against administrators.

Korte is fortunate that the Journal put the story on the front page. The exposure will allow Korte to accumulate support; support that would be denied her if the whole thing were swept under the rug.

Imagine how different things might be if these many years, the establishment press; the Journal, KRQE, KOAT, and KOB TV, had been investigating and reporting upon the ethics and accountability scandal;

• the abdication of the entire leadership of the APS as role models of the student standards of conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts!
• the denial of due process and a final hearing to whistleblower complaints,
• the obstruction of an independent administrative accountability audit, and
• the suppression of the Caswell Report on felony criminal misconduct involving APS senior administrators, link.

I wish Korte good luck; she's going to need it, else she be
pushed over to the dark side along with the rest.




photos Mark Bralley,
Korte, APS website