Public corruption in the APS; the media cover up

The public corruption;

the leadership of the APS is spending the Operational Fund without restraint, to subsidize cost-is-no-object legal defenses for school board members and senior administrators.

The operational fund dollars are taxpayer dollars that should, could and would be spent in classrooms were it and the public trust not being squandered on litigation and legal weaselry.

The spending decisions are made in meetings in secret, of which no recordings are permitted, and without oversight*. *Subordinate oversight is not oversight; it is an oxymoron.

It is all part of an ethics, standards, accountability and role modeling scandal in the leadership of the APS.

A scandal the Journal is covering up.

Were the leadership of the APS honestly accountable to the law, much less to higher standards of conduct than the law, the Journal would report it. Why would they not?

In the face of so many school board, bond issue, mill levy elections and superintendent searches, they would be remiss to not report that to stake and interest holders, to taxpayers and to voters.

Were the leadership of the APS honestly accountable to any standards of conduct at all, they could point to those standards and then point to the due processes by which they can be held accountable to them.

Ayn Rand argued that refusing to face an issue suggests that the worst is true.

The worst is true.

And that is why neither the leadership of the APS nor of the Journal will engage in an open and honest defense of their conduct or the relentless refusal to investigate and report upon it.

Paula Maes a former APS school board heavy hitter, whose family made a ton of money off APS litigation and legal weaselry, is also the President and CEO of the New Mexico Broadcasters Association.

The local affiliates, KRQE, KOAT, KOB TV coincidentally find themselves aligned with the Journal; unable or unwilling to face the issue of public corruption in the leadership of the APS.

The media cannot be relied upon to tell the truth; the whole truth and nothing but the ethically redacted truth. It is as sad as it is shameful.