Graduation rates; Abq Journal spreading APS deception

There are a number of measures of the success of a school district.  One of them is graduation rates; the percentage of students who begin high school and who finish high school.  Others include for example; standardized test scores like the ACT and SAT.

APS’ graduation rates are rising in the face of test scores that remain static or are actually falling.  Why is there a discrepancy?  If the APS is actually doing a better job of educating this community’s sons and daughters as they would have voters believe, wouldn’t all or most of the other indicators being rising together?

Why their focus on graduation rates?

Graduation rates are easily manipulated.  When APS decided to give students five years to graduate instead of four, graduation rates went up.  When APS decided to drop students from the graduation rate calculation if they had already failed the 9^th grade, graduation rates went up.

So why do graduation rates always come up when evaluating the APS?  Why are all of the other indicators ignored when the Journal publishes articles on the APS?

That the leadership of the APS would want to focus on their new improved graduation rates comes as no surprise.  That the Journal invariably follows APS’ lead unfortunately comes as no surprise either. 

There is an election coming up.   In less than a month, voters will cast ballots on nearly a third of a billion dollars and three school board members.

The Journal is yet to report one word on the ethics, standards and accountability crisis in the leadership of the APS; not even to report that it does not exist.

Why, if the Journal could report that the leadership of the APS is actually, honest to God accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence within their public service, won’t they?

Why, if the Journal could report that there is in fact, an accountability crisis in the leadership of the APS; that the board and administration are in fact spending millions of operational dollars on cost-is-no-object legal defenses in pursuit of “admissions no guilt”; that the school board’s own code of ethics is utterly unenforceable; that felony criminal misconduct is being covered up, wouldn’t they report it?

The point is; they won’t even look.

Ayn Rand offered; 

"To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true. and

There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. (investigate?)

The Alb Journal is part and parcel in the cover up of an ethics, standards and accountability crisis in the leadership of the APS.

I will bow to controverting evidence.  In particular, to any candid, forthright and honest investigation and report on ethics, standards and accountability in the leadership of the APS