Brooks to lead the Council of the Great City Schools

APS Supt Winston Brooks has
been chosen, link, to lead the
Board of Directors of the Council
of the Great City Schools, link.

Coincidentally, APS will host the
Council of the Great City Schools
annual conference in 2013.

He has enough spare time
apparently, to take that on.

Supposedly;

"Superintendent Winston Brooks brings to the leadership of the urban coalition a proven track record of successfully heading two Great City school districts - Wichita and Albuquerque."

The problem is of course, there is no objective data to support
that sweeping claim.

By what measures is Brooks successfully heading the APS?
If the measures are;

• successfully covering up the public corruption including felony criminal misconduct in the APS Police Department, and
• successfully abdicating from his responsibilities as the senior-most administrative role model of the student standards of conduct, and
• successfully denying due process to hundreds of whistleblower complaints against administrators, and
• successfully avoiding any independent standards and accountability audit of the leadership of the APS which would individually identify corrupt and incompetent administrators and board members, and
• successfully keeping it all out of the Journal and local TV,
  

then I guess, yes, he is successfully leading the APS.

But if the measures are employee and community morale, or
test scores, or graduation rates, or transparency, or
administrative standards and accountability, then
he is not so very successful at all.




photo Mark Bralley