Journal post election editorial

It is the want and practice of Journal editors to weigh in in the days after a school board election in an editorial harrumph bewailing poor voter turnout .  And they have again, link.

There were few grains in the chaff;

• (low voter turnout) does not serve the candidates or the students, teachers, administrators or taxpayers who depend on our public schools.

• At APS, the board is entrusted with overseeing policy for more than 90,000 students, 11,500 employees and 136 schools and an annual budget of $1.3 billion.

• Voter fatigue and apathy aside, this level of turnout is unacceptable.

• ... there is a way to make it better; ...changing when school board elections can be held.

Conspicuous in their absence from their analysis of reasons voters didn't vote;

• the Journal's own failure and or refusal to investigate and report upon an ethics, standards and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS. and

• the Journal's own failure and or refusal to investigate and report upon credible evidence of a cover up of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators.