APS School Board Will Take no Questions

Not any time, nor in any venue, not by any means; in person or in writing, will the APS school board answer legitimate questions about the public interests and their public service.

In particular, they are taking no questions on school board ethics, standards, accountability or, board member’s obligations as the senior-most role models in the APS.

They will not engage in an open and honest public, two-way discussion about their own standards of conduct.

Will the superintendent they select in their meetings in secret, stand for questions about their ethics, standards and accountability?
Will they stand up as a role model?

What do you think?

The board’s unanimous decision to not include “role model” among the desirable characteristics of their next superintendent should end any boggle.

The board steadfastly refuses to

1. Point to the ethics, and standards of conduct to which they claim accountability; specifically; in print, page, paragraph and line.

2. Point to the due processes by which stake and interest holders can hold school board members and senior administrator accountable to those standards.

3. Produce public records of investigations of public corruption; state and federal felony criminal misconduct in the leadership of APS publicly funded private police force (2007)

4. Produce public records of expenditures on what has been described as cost-is-no-object legal defenses for school board members, senior administrators and public records requests.

5. Produce public records of communications between APS and its insurers regarding increased premiums related to excessive spending on litigation (and legal weaselry).

What will it take do you suppose, to get any one of KOB, KOAT, KRQE or the Journal to investigate and report upon ethics, standards, accountability and role modeling in the leadership of the APS?