Upon further refection; forget about an independent audit, but only for now.

I am still in favor of annual independent examination and reviews of;

• Ethics,

• Standards and

• Accountability

in the Albuquerque Public Schools, from Kindergarteners to school board members meeting in secret.

There is something we can demand right now,
fully expecting a rather immediate response;

a candid, forthright and honest accounting of Ethics,
Standards and Accountability in the APS.

All of the ethics, standards and accountability that exist in the APS, exist in public records; policies and procedural directives.  They are immediately available.

If applicable ethics, standards and accountability are not immediately available in public records, it would be fair to ask, why are they not?

How can they be actually honestly accountable

• to ethics and standards they can't immediately find,

• by processes they can't immediately find either?

What would happen if the leadership of the APS was asked to create just such public record?

A candid, forthright and honest accounting
of ethics, standards and accountability
in the Albuquerque Public Schools

I can tell you exactly what would
happen and rather immediately.

The leadership of the APS, the board,
administration and their lawyers, will
tell APS Public Records Custodian and
Communications Director Rigo Chavez
to send a letter explaining that the NM
Inspection of Public Records Act does
not "require" APS to "create a public record."

Interestingly, APS' student standards of
conduct; established by the board and enforced by the supt,
require students, at the expense of the forfeiture of their good character, to expect from themselves,
more than the law requires and less than the law allows.


I can tell you what else will (not)
happen,  Journal Editor in Chief
Kent Walz will not have a reporter
assigned to investigate and report
upon ethics, standards and
accountability in the APS.

Nor will any news director at any
NM Broadcasters Assoc Affiliate
TV stations in town.


Creating such a record,
one would think, would
fall reasonably within the
duties of an "Executive
Director" of Communications
such as Monica Armenta.

One would think she could be expected to put together a candid, forthright and honest accounting of ethics, standards and accountability in APS because that's what we pay her $111K a year to do;
communicate.




photos Mark Bralley