Wednesday, September 19, 2012

APS web team earns another Sunny Award

... the second this year.

According to agenda for the regular board meeting tonight;

Albuquerque Public Schools Web Team has earned the national Sunny Award, which recognizes government organizations for an exemplary job of disclosing information to the public with a transparent website.
Nothing has changed since they won the first Sunny in March of this year, link; if you visit their "award winning" website, you still will find neither;
  • a candid, forthright and honest accounting of the tax dollars they spent on their new and yet to be justified boardroom, nor
  • the findings of any standards and accountability audits of the administration or board, nor
  • any data on student discipline or chronically disruptive students, nor
  • the findings of any number of investigations of administrative and executive corruption and incompetence, like the Caswell Report or any of the other investigations into corruption in the leadership of their publicly funded, private police force and the felonies they committed, nor
  • any other data that doesn't paint the leadership of the APS in the best light.
The APS Communications Department spends nearly a million dollars a year shining APS' apple. Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta, >$106K, and her staff's job is anything but, fully informing interest holders regarding the wielding of their power or the spending of their resources by the administration and board.

She will never tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the ethically redacted truth about anything that might make APS Supt Winston Brooks look bad, link.

Their Sunny Award is a sham.

Let Armenta tell the truth about
  • "why" Brooks is hiding the Caswell Report, or
  • how much the board room cost, or
  • why they're denying due process to whistleblower complaints, or
  • why they're dodging an independent audit of their standards and accountability, or
  • why they won't post audit findings on their website,
and then we can talk about APS being "transparent".




photo Mark Bralley

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