I want to know who s/he is.

Winston Brooks is pretty sure that the APS has too many employees. link

He is not sure whether the district has "too many administrators, too many teachers, or too many custodians".

Over the last year, we paid some senior APS administrator
more than a hundred thousand dollars to make sure that
we had exactly the right number of administrators,
and teachers, and custodians.

Not only did s/he not get the proportions right, but
s/he doesn't even know in which direction they are skewed.

Either that, or s/he got the proportions wrong,
knows which way it is skewed (too many administrators),
but won't tell Winston Brooks.

So Winston Brooks has to show his ass to stakeholders
and reveal that nobody in his entire administration
has the slightest idea whether they have

"too many administrators, too many teachers,
or too many custodians".

If I were Winston, and somebody did that to me,
I would be pissed.

In fact, I would be so pissed that I would name the name
of the APS senior administrator who was paid $100K
to keep track of administrators, and teachers, and custodians,

but did not.

Then I would fire him, or her
for their incompetence.



This whole picture is a perfect illustration of the need for
a full scale accountability audit of the leadership of the APS.

It is also a perfect illustration of their need to prevent that audit.
And of their need to keep the need for an audit, secret from stakeholders.

Why is there not a single senior administrator in the entire APS

who knows the answer already, to the question;

"Does APS have too many administrators,
too many teachers, or too many custodians?"

Why will no one be held accountable for not being able to answer that question? In the last year, we paid that person at least $100K to know the answer to that question exactly.

How is it that, this late in the day,
Winston Brooks does not know, cannot figure out, and
no one can tell him,

whether he has "too many administrators, too many teachers,
or too many custodians?"

Winston Brooks eschews outside audit-again!

Andrea Schoellkopf reports in the Journal, link, today
that Winston Brooks has yet again refused an impartial
audit of administrative accountability in the APS.

"Brooks said APS would need to evaluate departments
and job functions, but said he did not yet want to seek
an external audit of effectiveness."

Every external audit that has ever been done of the leadership
of the APS has revealed significant administrative failures.

In a recent audit of the APS,
the Council of the Great City Schools auditors wrote;

Administrative evaluations, in the APS, are subjective
and unrelated to promotion or step placement.

When the APS was without a single CPA, on staff,
the state auditor offered the services of their auditors, and
APS declined, twice.

APS does not want state auditors looking at their (lack of)
financial record keeping.

APS needs an accountability audit.

Someone needs to come in looking for meaningful standards
of conduct and competence, and for honest accountability
to those standards.

They will find neither.

The most recent audit of the APS Finance Division, by
Meyners & Co, revealed neither standards nor accountability
in a division that spends 1.3 billion dollars annually.

The Meyners Audit revealed that the APS Finance Division has
forever been;

• without adequate written financially sound policies
• without accountability to the policies that they did have, and
• without keeping complete and accurate books.

Another audit by the CGCS revealed that anyone in the APS
who blows the whistle on any of these shenanigans will fall
victim to a "... culture of retribution and retaliation ..."

It is clear as crystal why Winston Brooks and the good ol' boys
don't want independent auditors scrutinizing their operation.

Less clear is how they are able to get away with it; and
get away with it, and
get away with it.

How can public servants in an organization wracked with
corruption and incompetence, simply refuse to be audited
in the public interest? They have shown over and over again
that trust in them is misplaced. Yet, Winston Brooks, et al
steadfastly refuse to be audited, insisting instead that
we trust them to audit themselves.

I don't, and neither should anyone else.

It is wrong for them, even to ask.

Celebrate the 8, conversation series

Winston Brooks and a herd of administrators are touring the
district, supposedly engaged in conversation with stakeholders.

I say "supposedly", because conversation in this context, means
no opportunity to ask legitimate questions about the public interest.

Although they claim to have gone to identify problems,
they return with no new problems to add to the list.

We know what the problems are.
There is no need to go looking for them.

Winston Brooks in trying to change the perception of the community, of the APS.

In so far as the perception is that they all lack the character and the courage to tell the truth, and, in so far as the perception is that they have abdicated as role models of the Student Standard of Conduct,

the perception is not changing.

Yet another illustrative example of a legitimate question that no one will answer.

If an impartial full scale forensic audit were done of the entire leadership of the APS,

if auditors came in looking for honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence,

if they looked for waste and the practices that enable it;
corruption and incompetence,

if they came in to ferret out the corrupt and the incompetent,


what would they find?

Winston Brooks: APS might be over staffed.

Gee, ya think?!

The Journal reports this morning, link, that Winston Brooks
is looking for places to trim the budget, and is looking at the
possibility that the APS may be "overstaffed".

APS' budget is staggering under the weight of the loss of $20M
from this years budget, and by the prospect of that same $20M
less in future budgets. APS had been over stating
teacher experience and the size of its special education staff,
so the state demanded a $20M refund from the APS, and
APS' budget will be $20M less than projected each year
in the future.

Journal reporter Andrea Schoellkopf writes; Brooks says
he thinks APS spends a higher percentage of its budget on
salaries than other large districts, yet its average salaries
are less than in those other districts. The conclusion; APS
may have too many people.

Schoellkopf continued; (Brooks) doesn't know "... whether
its too many administrators, too many teachers, or too many
custodians."

Yes, that's it; APS has too many custodians.

The kicker;

"While an audit might help determine what areas can be cut, Brooks said he'd prefer to first ask directors to review their departments for essential and less-important jobs."

Which begs the question, why are Directors just now getting around to reviewing their departments for less-important jobs?

Isn't this an admission that those Directors have allowed, enabled, or encouraged, bloating in their departments, heretofore?

Brooks' other plan; study "equivalent" school districts.

"The budget transition team , (Brooks) said, is looking at other school districts to determine pupil-teacher ratios and the administrator staffing levels needed at the schools."

Basically, Brooks new plan is the same old plan;

• a completely meaningless comparison between APS other administratively bloated school districts, and
• count on the same people who overstaffed their departments in the first place, to identify the mistakes they made, accept accountability for them, and then correct them.

Brooks, according to Schoellkopf, rejects the idea of an impartial outside audit.

Competent auditors could come into the district looking for honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence for the senior public servants who administer the public trust and treasure. Independent auditors will ferret out waste and the practices that enable them; corruption and incompetence.

They will individually identify the corrupt and the incompetent in the leadership of the APS.

For example, they would probably point out that having two senior administrators who's job it is to promote Character Counts! in a district that is abandoning Character Counts! as quickly as it is able, is probably a waste of two administrators.

They would probably conclude that spending millions of dollars annually on a Praetorian Guard; (a publicly funded, private police force that reports directly, and only, to the good ol' boys), is probably a waste of millions of dollars annually.

They would probably conclude that paying a disgruntled former employee tens of thousands of tax dollars not to take evidence of administrative felony criminal misconduct, to police, is probably a squandering of the public trust and treasure.

They would find that spending who knows what, to keep secret, the public corruption and criminal conspiracy in the leadership of the APS, is probably a squandering of the public trust and treasure.

They would find that spending a billion tax dollars a year,
according to the results of the Meyner Audit;

• without financially sound policies and procedures, and
• without honest accountability to any meaningful standard of conduct at all, and
• without keeping records accurate enough to send anyone to jail

is probably a waste of tax dollars. Unless a miracle of biblical proportion has taken place, there are likely millions of tax dollars gone missing to waste and corruption.

Winston Brooks will not answer a single question about the scandal. Winston Brooks will not stand on the record and tell stakeholders whether or not the Meyners auditors uncovered criminal misconduct.

Nor will Winston Brooks answer questions about felony criminal misconduct and APS senior leadership involved in the APS Police Department scandal. The scandal includes felony criminal abuse of the NCIC data base, on Darren White's watch. The scandal continues for as long as District Attorney Kari Brandenburg continues to ignore felony public corruption in the leadership of the APS. Statutes of limitation are about to expire. The good ol' boys are about to go free.




The audit would conclude that the problem in the APS
is not that we have too many teachers,
nor, would they conclude that, we have too many custodians.




Winston Brooks and the leadership of the APS stand four square against any audit that will reveal waste due to the corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS.

They do so, not to protect the public interests, but to protect the interests of the good ol' boys who were steering the bus when it left the road, and who are now trying desperately to get the bus back on the road, without getting ticketed for their negligent driving.

An impartial administrative accountability audit of the leadership of the APS, will identify all of the problems on the administrative side of the equation. Which is precisely why the good ol' boys will avoid an honest audit at any cost.

School Board head honcho, Paula Maes, who's husband's law firm makes millions of dollars off taxpayers and the APS, has stated on the record, that she will not allow any audit that individually identifies corrupt and incompetent administrators.

A lean administration would not only save money, but it would
inspire "teachers and custodians" to accept frugality in their lives as well. They call it leading by example.

It is time to tell the truth, Superintendent Brooks.
It is time to lay the cards on the table for everyone to see.

Ethically redacted truth

It begins with the whole truth; belonging to no one because
it belongs to everyone.

Then comes redaction of the truth.
Some parts of the truth are kept secret.

If the rules of redaction are consistent with a meaningful
standard of conduct, the public interest is protected.

The only principle that applies to APS Modrall redaction is

1. inconvenient truth will be redacted.

If the rules of redaction are;
there are no rules that apply to APS Modrall,
the public interest is not protected.

The public interest is in fact being betrayed by
public servants hiding the truth from stakeholders.

The truth is being hidden to protect the good ol' boys from
the consequences of their corruption and their incompetence.

The public interest is not being protected by the secrecy
hiding the ethics and accountability scandal
in the leadership of the APS.

Our trust in them is being betrayed.

Is it fair to say; The leadership of the APS cannot summon the character and the courage, to talk about character and courage?

On the table;

It has been strongly suggested that the leadership of the APS is abandoning Character Counts! because they personally lack the character and the courage to hold themselves honestly accountable to that nationally recognized, accepted, and respected code of ethical conduct.

They have been given every opportunity to offer any other explanation at all for their lack of accountability as role models of the student standards of conduct; the Pillars of Character Counts!

All they do is stonewall.

Stonewalling is not an acceptable response to a legitimate question about the public interest.

• Stonewalling is a blatant violation of the standard of conduct to which these "leaders" hold students accountable.
• Stonewalling is dishonest. Honest accountability to any meaningful standard of conduct at all, demands the telling of the truth; candidly, forthrightly, honestly.
• There is no good and ethical reason to stonewall.
• Stonewalling is the only defense of an indefensible position.
• It is cowardice and dishonesty in one.
  

Why hasn't the Journal's education reporter written
the truth about the ethics and accountability scandal
in the leadership of the APS?

Dear, NM Republican Party Rules Committee

What's up?

Now that the election is over, there really is no reason at all not to have a hearing of the complaint against Jon Barela. Will you allow him to ignore the party rules, or what?

Inquiring minds want to know,
and due process demands to know.

It has now been 34 days since the complaint was first filed,
and a month since Rules Committee Chair Lou Melvin
stopped responding to my questions about due process
and the complaint.

School Board passes campaign finance reform; sort of.

Marty Esquivel's motion to ask board candidates to pretty please disclose campaign finances, has passed the board.

Candidates will now be "asked" to disclose campaign finances.

Like their "code of ethics", the new measure is completely unenforceable.


Side note; Marty Esquivel, who earned roughly tens times as many votes as I did in the 2007 election, admits spending $16,000 dollars for his campaign, or roughly $11.00 for each vote cast in his favor.

I probably spent closer to $11.00 in total.

Which begs at least a few questions;

Do we want to limit school board participation to those who can afford to pay $10 per vote to get in, or do we want to open it up to the less well hooked up?

Who can afford to spend $16,000 for a school board seat that pays far less than that, per year?

Why does the rest of the state get to screw up our school board?

A constitutional amendment was passed yesterday, statewide.

It increases the size of the APS school board from 7 members to 9. It does not apply to any other school district in the state.

KRQE reports that that amendment was rejected by city voters; the only real stakeholders in the decision.

Never the less, we will add two more members to a group that already takes forever to talk about everything. Ironically, Robert Lucero, who wastes more time at board meetings than all of the rest together, is a proponent for more people on the board; more people to listen to him when he talks, and talks, and talks.

My Public Forum presentation.

The national celebration of Character Counts! Week has come and gone without notice by the leadership of the APS.

Because Character Counts! itself, has come and gone without notice by the leadership of the APS.

There was an opportunity to proactively address nearly every problem we face at school, efficiently and effectively.

That opportunity has come and gone.

The opportunity was missed because there has never been, and there is not now;

a single member of the leadership of the APS with the character and the courage to step up to honest accountability as a role model of the Pillars of Character Counts!


Character Counts! in the APS is an abysmal failure because there has never been, and there is not now a single school board member with the character and the courage to step up as a role model of the student standard of conduct.

Character Counts! in the APS is an abysmal failure because there has never been, and there is not now a superintendent with the character and the courage to step up as a role model of the student standard of conduct.

Character Counts! in the APS is an abysmal failure because there has never been, and there is not now a single administrator anywhere the leadership of the Albuquerque public schools with the character and the courage to step up as role model of the student standard of conduct,

for even the few hours a day that they hold students accountable to those standards.

If there is any other explanation at all, I cannot imagine it.

If there is any other explanation at all, I cannot imagine why you will not explain it to us.

Explain it to us in words that a child can understand.

Explain to us, why they are accountable to the Pillars of Character Counts! and you are not.

It was met with the usual stonewalling;
half of them hiding their faces in their laptops, and
half of them facing the music.

I will give Superintendent Winston Brooks this;
he is looking me in the eye.
So is Marty Esquivel, Jon Barela, and Delores Griego.

But during "Matters of Information", after the Public Forum,
not one of them could summon the character and the courage,
to talk about character and courage.

Not one of them could summon the character and the courage
to be a role model of character and courage.


There is an elephant in the room.
Its tailed is draped over your head front to back.

If you can't see it, can't you at least smell it?

It takes character and courage to accept honest accountability as a role model

and there is only one reason that anyone in the leadership
of the APS would not accept that accountability;

they lack the character, and/or
they lack the courage.


If there is any other reason at all,
I cannot imagine it.



And neither can anyone in the leadership of the APS.



Character Counts! in the Albuquerque Public Schools
is an abysmal failure because there never has been,
and there is not now,
a single administrator or board member in the entire APS
with both the character and the courage to hold them self
honestly accountable as a role model of the student standard of conduct.





You pick a side, when you don't pick a side.

APS' Rigo Chavez, continues to hide the truth.

On October 28, 2008, the following letter was sent to APS'
Custodian of Public Records, and Director of Communications, Rigo Chavez;

Mr. Chavez,

I insist that you stop playing games and identify the private investigation firm that investigated the APS Police Department in late 2006 and or early 2007.

Additionally, I would like to know how many pages there are in their report.

It is now 9 days later, and he is yet to respond.

I suspect he will claim again that my email was somehow lost in the ether and he never saw it.

I suspect that he will keep the name of the private investigator secret until statutes of limitations have expired, and the good ol' boys escape accountability to the law, again.

Journal editors rightly upset

There are two editorial opinions in the Journal this morning.

Both have to do with public records that are being hidden
from public knowledge by public servants.

In one case, link, a consultant's report on the risk an old landfill poses to groundwater, is being hidden from those who will drink the water.

"... despite an opinion from the New Mexico Attorney General's Office that says “the public has a right to know” what the report contains. And that's despite a state district judge's ruling that the report is a public document."

In the other, link, an investigation into what happened to hundreds of developmentally disabled clients discharged from state institutions, is being hidden from public knowledge. Your tax dollars paid a lawyer to argue;

“any documentation in our possession is subject to attorney-client privilege, the attorney work-product doctrine, executive privilege and the deliberative process privilege.”

The editors point out;

"(Governor) Richardson has decided any state documents are not only not public record, but handing them over would be excessively burdensome."

If you read about the NMIPRA, you will find the availability of public records is essential to public oversight over their government.

You will find out as well, that the law is feckless. Even with lawyers of your own, you cannot get public servants to obey the law.

The editors entitled this opinion;

"Governor's Investigation Accountable to No One"

So the Journal editors do get it,
why won't they do anything about it?

There is only one reason to hide the truth;

to except public servants from accountability for their
non, mis, and malfeasance.

They are hiding the truth to their advantage, not ours.

Until the NMIPRA includes criminal penalties for public servants who hide public records, they will continue to hide public records and the truth from stakeholders, and we will pay for the lawyers that are screwing us out of the truth.

They will get away with it, for as long as we allow them.

Otherwise, they will keep these cases in the courts,
at huge expense to you, until the developmentally disabled clients have all died, and the ground water has all been drunk.

Closer to home, the leadership of the APS is still hiding public records of public corruption and incompetence in leadership of their Police Department, their Finance Division, their overall lack of standards and accountability, and their litigation to except themselves from accountability to law.

Governor Richardson and state government are beyond our influence. The leadership of the APS is not.

It begins by insisting that the leadership of the APS,
tell the (ethically redacted) truth for once, and at once.

It begins by insisting that the leadership of the APS provide a time, a day, and a place where they will answer legitimate questions, candidly, forthrightly, and honestly.

And not taking no for an answer.

Laying down the gauntlet

The obscure phrase, dates apparently to medieval times;
the days of chivalry and combat, the days of character and courage.

Throwing down the gauntlet, a heavy glove,
was the method of choice for challenging another knight
to a duel.

Picking the gauntlet up was the signal that the challenge had been accepted.

Hollywood apparently added the part where they took turns
slapping each other in the face.

I am laying down the gauntlet for "the leadership" of the Albuquerque Public Schools.

I challenge every "leader" in the APS to a duel.

Consider yourself slapped in the face by the declaration;

There is not a single leader in the APS,
with character and courage enough,
to hold themselves honestly accountable
as a role model of the student standard of conduct.

There is an opportunity for the "leaders" in the APS to defend their honor by standing up on the record, as willing role models of the student standard of conduct.


There is a public forum at 5pm Wednesday, November 5,
Uptown Complex, 6400 Uptown Blvd.

APS Bill Reed responds on the record.

APS top cop, Bill Reed has responded to my allegations in my post entitled; Winston Brooks' Castle Keep. link

Good Morning Mr. MacQuigg:

I take the following issues with your blog, on the record.

1.  All of our sworn personnel including myself, are State Certified Police Officers, Certified by the New Law Enforcement Academy, subject to all laws governing police officers.  This includes adherence to a code of ethics, subject to revocation of their certification for misconduct and violations of the law.

2.  My Department works directly under, and I answer to the Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Brad Winter, not Winston Brooks.

3.  No sworn police officers were taken out of the schools to provide security here at City Centre, our priority remains the students.

4.  People attending Board Meetings will not be required to sign in or out during those meetings, they will be free to come and go.  If you were required to sign in for a Board meeting that was a mistake.  As with any new procedure, there are kinks that need to be worked out.

Finally, I hope that you will set the record straight on your blog  regarding the status of our police officers.

Sincerely,

Bill

Bill Reed
Albuquerque Public Schools
Director of School Police

And my response;

1. I did not state that individuals on the APS Police Department were uncertified, unaccredited, or in any other way unqualified to protect students and staff in the APS.

I argued, and still do, that the department itself can claim no accreditation or certification. My argument is based on a letter to me in response to my question;

Is the APS Police Department accredited, certificated, or certified by anyone?

to which then APS Chief of Police, Lovato replied;

"no".

Bill Reed would be hard pressed I think, to point to anything that I have ever written that impugned the honor any individual member of the Department. I think that I have also been extremely careful not to associate the motives of the leadership of the APS with Bill Reed's personal motives.

2. I stand corrected. The APS Police Department reports to Brad Winter.

Brad Winter is the guy who refuses to tell us how much money he spent building a fancy new board room, with money he saved by eliminating fire safety inspections in schools.

I would suppose that Brad Winter also had something to do with promoting two people who did not blow the whistle in the irregularities pointed out by the Meyners Audit, to positions, Chief Financial Officer, and Director of Internal Audits, where they might be instrumental in covering up administrative incompetence and corruption, and their failure to report it years ago.

Never the less, I still hold Winston Brooks absolutely accountable for his use of the APS Police Department.

3. To me, this seems like a distinction without a difference,
but anything I write from now on will reflect that the guards are not sworn officers.

4. I accept that a mistake was made and that, I will not have to surrender my id again.

The Journal also reported link that the new procedures applied to those going to board meetings. So my confusion is legitimate. The Journal wrote;

"That means anyone wanting access to the public offices, including the Student Service Center, the fingerprint area for volunteers or even school board meetings will have to first present a photo ID when entering the lobby of 6400 Uptown NE."

Sounds like a job for communications guru, Monica Armenta.

And finally,

"Finally, I hope that you will set the record straight on your blog regarding the status of our police officers."

Frankly, I take umbrage. I have never, ever, not set the record straight.

I think it is fair to point out that this is my 2,593rd post.
I have never been substantially contradicted on anything that I have ever written.

The truth is that no one in the entire leadership of the APS will do anything about my allegations except to stonewall them. Bill Reed remains the only senior administrator in the entire APS with the character and the courage to defend his character on the record. He is the only senior administrator in the entire APS unwilling to sit back and be painted with the brush that reads; "the leadership of the APS" and their corruption and incompetence.

The rest of the "leadership of the APS" is stonewalling me
because I am telling the truth,
not because I am telling lies.

My several credible allegations of an ethics and accountability
scandal in the leadership of the APS are not being ignored
because false;

they are being ignored because they are absolutely true.

Winston Brooks' Castle Keep

Castle keep; wikilink

I have been disturbed ever since I had to surrender my drivers license in order to go to a board meeting.

I get it. I understand that someone walked into a bathroom and found someone "bathing". And some purses and a car were stolen. link But is this overkill?

APS' top cop, Bill Reed is in between a rock and a hard place.
He will be damned for allocating too many resources, or too few.
Enough said. The resource allocation is not what is bugging me.

What is creeping me out is that, all of the loyal troops, their power,
and their resources are being called back into the Uptown digs.

There are no windows, and now all of the doors are locked
but one.

And that one is "guarded" 24/7, by their Praetorian Guard.
wikilink

• They are a private police force.
• They report directly to Winston Brooks, and
• they report only to Winston Brooks.
• They are certified by no one, and
  
• they are accredited by no one.
• They, and private investigators, gather and hold all of the evidence of even criminal misconduct by APS administrators.

Two years later, evidence of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators, including the past commander of their Praetorian Guard still has not been surrendered to the District Attorney's Office.

Evidence of public corruption and criminal conspiracy in the leadership of the APS Police Department, and their chain of command, is still secret from public knowledge.

Statutes of limitation expire within months.

Recollect for me the circumstances of the criminal prosecution
of a senior APS administrator, ever.

Stakeholders have been locked out of the process, and
they are now locked out of the building.

Winston Brooks will not answer questions.
He steadfastly refuses to name a time, a day, and a place,
where he will finally sit and tell the truth;
where he will answer every legitimate question, candidly,
forthrightly, and honestly.


The only thing missing;

APS Police Department snipers on the roof.




photo by Mark Bralley link

The leadership of the APS, and their body maps

Recollect for me please, the name of a single senior APS administrator that was "fired" by the leadership of the APS, except by means of an extended paid administrative leave and a bootfull of cash.
(usually on the order of several hundred thousand dollars)

Which begs the question;

Why can't the leadership of the APS fire a
senior administrator without paying them off?

The only answer is that fired senior administators, and their lawyers, have some leverage.

Unless you can point to another possibility; that leverage is a body map.

Former, APS Police Chief Gil Lovato said that when his body map became public, there would not be a single senior APS administrator left standing.

Rather than having Lovato expose his map to the record in an open courtroom, he was "retired" by means of$40K worth of paid leave, and
apparently will not have to reimburse the APS evidence room for
missing money.

If an organization tolerates corruption and incompetence,
then one does not rise to seniority in that organization
without a body map.

If there were any other explanation at all,
must less a good and ethical explanation,
other than that

the leadership of the APS is wracked with
corruption and incompetence,
and tax dollars are being spent to cover it up.

they wouldn't have to stonewall the question.



As a corollary;
When APS Deputy Superintendent Michael Vigil was arrested for aggravated drunk driving, APS board member Robert Lucero insisted on his immediate termination. Lucero's argument was that Michael Vigil had failed so badly as a role model for students, that he deserved termination. (In the end, Vigil continued to "work" at full salary for some time, apparently doing nothing, and then he left with a quarter mil in unwitting tax payer support for education.)

Now consider Robert Lucero's failure as a role model;

• he voted to remove from his own standard of conduct, the phrase;

  in no case shall the standard of conduct for an adult (him) be lower than the standard of conduct for students, and

• he voted to deny whistle blower protection to those who expose ethical misconduct by administrators or board members, and
• he tabled a motion before the board, which would have created a policy that would require APS administrators to respond to legitimate questions, candidly, forthrightly, and honestly.
• he voted for himself a code of ethical conduct that even he admits is completely unenforceable.
  

But mostly, Robert Lucero will not now stand up
and hold himself accountable as role model for students and staff.

Robert Lucero will not answer the question;

Will you hold yourself accountable as a role model for students?

Robert Lucero cannot manifest the character and courage even
to talk about character and courage.

His lack of character and courage sets a far worse example for students, than Michael Vigil's drunk driving.

Yet, Robert Lucero will not be held accountable for his failure as a role model.

Because, in truth, there is no one in the entire leadership of the APS with any interest at all in talking about accountability. There is not one willing to be held honestly accountable as a role model of a standard of conduct which requires them to tell the truth.

Because, in truth, there is no one in the entire leadership of the APS with any interest at all in being held honestly accountable to meaningful standards of conduct and competence.

If there were, they would be standing up and demanding an immediate impartial accountability audit of the entire leadership of the APS.

Security ramped up at APS' Uptown Complex

I have oft encouraged stakeholders to tour the Uptown digs
of the leadership of the APS. I think they should see the
opulent offices where men sit and decide that there is not
money enough left over, to give the poor EAs a raise.

The tour will now be harder to accomplish.

Responding to "a high number of transients" using facilities
inappropriately and leaving messes, the leadership has decided
to ramp up security on the building. Visitors now have to
enter through the front of the building and surrender their
drivers license in exchange for a visitor pass.

I was not required to declare my destination, since I had
been cut off on the way into a scheduled board meeting,
but I would not be surprised to find that destination declaration
will be part of the piece, and that anyone who declares that
they want to inspect for opulence through out the building will
find their plan rejected.

Following Monday, story in the Journal; link