New leadership on APS Board of Ed

A full week after their election, the names of the new school board officers have finally appeared on APS' award winning website, link.

Dr. Analee Maestas was elected president, Dr. Donald Duran was elected vice-president, and Steven Michael Quezada was re-elected school board secretary.













They will serve one-year terms.

I think its fair to say it is unclear whether their new "leadership" will come to anything but more of the same old, same old.  There are powers in play that dwarf the powers of individual players like Maestas and Duran.

For example; Maestas and Duran remain, link, "officially" clueless and retain plausible deniability of knowledge of former School Board President Marty Esquivel and Supt Winston Brooks' unjustifiable spending on their own legal defenses and the conditions under which they are spending; an abject lack of oversight by the school board.

The Board also chose committee chairs:

• Kathy Korte;  District and Community Relations Committee, 
• Martin Esquivel; Finance Committee 
• Dr. Duran; Audit Committee.
• Lorenzo Garcia; Capital Outlay, Property and Technology Committee and 
• Dr. David Peercy ; Policy and Instruction Committee

Marty Esquivel's chairmanship of the Finance Committee makes him automatically, the chair of the Audit Committee.

As the chair of the Audit Committee, Esquivel is in a position to make sure that an audit, investigation and review of APS' limitless spending on litigation, never makes it onto an Audit Committee agenda.


Policy and Instruction Committee Chair David Peercy was reinstalled as that committee's chair and will be able to continue to keep a public discussion of the role modeling clause off  his committee's agenda, link.

The Journal, unless I missed it, has not reported on the change in school board leadership and what are if any, the implications.


I can understand why Journal Managing Editor Kent Walz is willing to cover for his friend Marty Esquivel, but one would think that he would at least send a reporter to interview the new school board leadership regarding their goals and aspirations.

One wonders why he did not.




photos Mark Bralley