APS Board reining in Kathy Korte?

If nothing else, APS School Board Vice President Kathy Korte is volatile and vociferous.

Korte seconds after attacking photo journalist Mark Bralley

Korte, feeling stalked and intimidated by Mark Bralley

Korte's v and v are creating problems for the Board.  Korte is known to show up in places and advocate on behalf of issues, not all of which necessarily enjoy the mutual support of the rest of the board.

When Korte speaks outside board meetings and speaks as "APS School Board Vice President Kathy Korte", a perception is created that Korte speaks for the board.

No problem if they and Korte are in tune.  It becomes a problem if and when she wanders off the reservation. APS School Board Policy makes it very clear; school board members have zero authority except when acting as a board.

Exceptions are made.

The most notable of which is the fact that APS police officers, the board's Praetorian Guard, freely admit that they take orders from board members despite their lack of authority to give them. 

They freely admit they will eject someone from a public meeting; someone who has broken no law, no rule, no regulation, and at the absolute whim of a board member, link.

According their agenda, link, the APS School Board will discuss "Clarification of Board Member Advocacy".  The agenda indicates no action to be taken.

APS board meeting agendas typically lack "reasonable specificity", a phrase that comes up in the New Mexico Open Meetings Act.

Their agendas lack specificity because if more people knew what they were doing, more people would show up to watch them do it.

How would you know from

C. Clarification of Board Member Advocacy (Discussion)
Presenter: Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education

whether you needed to be there or not?

Board meeting attendance is routinely, abysmally low.

The leadership of the APS like it that way.

Attendance is low because nobody cares, because nobody knows what's really going on.

Nobody knows what's going on because the establishment's press has let down the people.  They have failed to fully inform the democracy.

The Journal aids and abets in their steadfast refusal to investigate anything in APS.

Sure, they cover a scandal every once in awhile, link, when they haven't a choice.  Mostly they publish what the PR wing of the APS would like them to.

Where is the Journal coverage of the cover up of that scandal?

Doesn't the democracy need to know about the cover up even more than they needed to know about the scandal?  Isn't the cover up more newsworthy now, than the scandal was then?

Why hasn't Managing Editor Kent Walz told readers that nobody ever investigated felony criminal misconduct involving APS senior administrators except APS' own investigators or investigators in their employ?

Why hasn't Walz told readers that evidence of felony criminal misconduct was never turned over to the DA for prosecution?

Why hasn't Walz told interest holders that even after statutes of limitation on felony criminal misconduct have expired, all of the findings of all of the investigations are still being hidden from public knowledge by the leadership of the APS and their lawyers, in blatant violation of the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act?

Why hasn't the Journal investigated and reported upon the cover up, except that they are part of the cover up?

Why are KRQE, KOAT, and KOB TV's so call community serving investigative teams not picking at this scab?

Except that they are at the management level;, at the former APS School Board heavy hitter Paula Maes' NM Broadcasters Association Affiliate level, are part of the cover up.




photos Mark Bralley and Korte's own facebook.