“APS Teachers Deserve Voice In Superintendent Selection”

The Journal (sub req) gave a few column inches to
the Teachers Federation President, Ellen Bernstein this morning.
On the table; Who will select the new superintendent for the APS?
On the most fundamental level, the school board will select the new supt.
Clearly they will or will not be taking advice; and will or will not feel pressure [...]

It will likely be a while before I write again on this blog

The purpose of this blog was to be a positive and proactive venue for improving education in the APS.
That is not possible with leadership that refuses accountability; even as role models for students; and while there is no hope that that situation will ever change.
…it is simply impossible.
The fight for the right of stakeholders to [...]

The Journal wrote about APS

this morning.
They did not write that the APS board of education has adopted a comparitively meaningless and absolutely unenforceable standard of conduct as the standard that they will model before students and staff.

School Board adopts comparitively meaningless and completely unenforceable code of ethics

as you might expect,
please read the essays on Diogenes’six.

No legitimate purpose is served by adopting a meaningless and unenforceable “code of ethics”

please read about it on D6, and then please show up at the board meeting to stop it.

The Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education to abdicate

At the meeting tonight, the board will vote to lower their standard of conduct; knowing full well that even the lowered standard is completely unenforceable.
In so doing; they will abdicate as the senior role models for 90,000 students and 12,000 employees in the APS.
They will betray their commitment to Character Counts.
They will do it in [...]

The board will vote tomorrow night

The board will vote on a motion to approve the draft code of ethics, as the final formal code of ethics for the board.
I am offering a friendly amendment to the motion.

Whereas; The board will pass a “code of ethics”, and
Whereas; The code of ethics will establish a standard of conduct for board members, and
Whereas; [...]

Draft Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education Code of Ethics

1 Make the education and well-being of students the basis for all decision making;
2 Understand that the legal authority of the board is derived from New Mexico Statutes and Administrative Code, which determine the degree of power delegated to the board for local decisions;
3 Speak on behalf of the board only when the board by official [...]

“Find APS a Direction Before a New Leader”

That was the advice given to the the APS school board by editors in a Sunday Journal editorial.
The advice is sound. It is the responsibility of the school board to point the direction, and the responsibility of the new superintendent to figure out how to get there.
Any search for a new superintendent is premature [...]

Next Thursday morning, there will be three standards of conduct in the APS

When the APS Board of Education adopts its own Code of Ethics Wednesday night; there will be three codes of conduct in the APS. One applies to students, one applies to administrators (and co-incidently to all other employees), and one which will apply to members of the board of education.
The student standard of conduct is [...]