Why won’t the Journal do its job?

On November 5th of this year, there will be an election over whether the leadership of the APS should be trusted with another few hundred million tax dollars.

Questions around their capacity for stewardship are to be expected.

That the Journal would ask these questions is to be expected.  That the Journal would report upon the questions and responses in order to inform the democracy is to be expected.  It is vital to the process.

How else will voters know whether to place their trust and treasure in the hands of the leadership of the APS?

Two questions are of supreme importance;

1. Are there executive and administrative standards in place which are high enough to protect the public interests in the public schools?
   
   
2. Are school board members and senior administrators actually accountable to those standards by some due process?

The leadership of the APS refuses to discuss their standards and accountability.

Ayn Rand argued; "To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.”

The leadership of the APS has good reason to fear an impartial examination and review of their standards and accountability.

The Albuquerque Journal’s reason to eschew an investigation and report to stake and interest holders is less clear;

1. Do they want not to expose an ethics, standards and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, or
   
   
2. Do they want not to expose the leadership of the APS for being honest to God accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence within their public service?

It is clear that voters need to know either way.

It is equally clear that, either way, the Journal wants no part of informing voters about standards and accountability in the leadership of the APS.

One wonders;
why not?