Brooks in secret evaluation continued this morning

Will Brooks' get to add to his already
overinflated golden parachute?

The APS School Board met in secret from stake holders this morning.  If their agenda, link, and closing statements are to be believed; they continued their discussions regarding APS Supt Winston Brooks' Performance Improvement Plan and Evaluation.

You as a voter taxpayer have no way of holding Winston Brooks accountable for his character or competence, no matter how abysmal.  None.  Zero.  Nada,  Zilch.

What you do have is a school board member that represents you and your interests in their evaluation process.

But how do you hold your school board member accountable for what they insist in doing in secret?  How do you know whether your representative is asking tough question or polishing Brooks' apple?

The answer is an independent standards and accountability audit.  Audit may be the wrong word; call it whatever you want as long as when it's done, the people will know at once and for all, whether Brooks has set high enough standards of conduct and competence to protect the public interests in the public schools.

And further and just as important; whether Brooks has created in his administration, honest and actual accountability to those standards; there not being a whit of difference between high standards and low, if neither is enforced.

I expect my representative to the school board, Defendant Marty Esquivel, to hold Brooks accountable for, among other things, his failure to step up to honest accountability as the senior-most role model of student standards of conduct.

Esquivel was in favor of an
audit, until he was against one.

Fat chance of Esquivel doing that of course, loathe as he was to step up to honest accountability as a role model of the Pillars of Character Counts! when he was School Board President; the very senior-most role model of student standards of conduct in the entire APS.

Is it finally time for an independent audit of Winston Brooks' administration of the public schools?

Former Board Pres Paula Maes

Marty Esquivel actually spoke in favor of just an audit when he was new to the board.  School Board heavy hitter Paula Maes let him know in no uncertain terms that she would never agree to any audit that individually identified corrupt or incompetent administrators or school board members. 

Maes runs the NM Broadcasters Assoc and likely has something to do with the fact that none of the NMBA affiliate stations in Albuquerque will investigate and report upon the ethics, standards and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS.

Does the leadership have high enough administrative and executive standards of conduct and competence?  Are they enforced by a system that guarantees due process of legitimate complaints; without the appearances of impropriety and conflicts of interest?

Could we hear it from someone besides a school board member or senior administrator?

The answer is no; there is no due process of complaints filed against school board members and senior administrators.  An audit will prove that.  They have and will continue to avoid one like it was the plague.

If the leadership of the APS had high enough standards, they would point to them.

If the leadership of the APS has honest, actually accountability to those standards, they would point to it.

If the establishment's media were not part of the cover up of
the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS,

they would point to it.
If there is no scandal, they would point to that.

That they will point to neither points to their complicity
in the cover up of the standards and accountability scandal
in the leadership of the APS.




photos Mark Bralley