“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 to select a particular candidate over others.
Bernstein articulated her position extraordinarily well.
“…a collaborative leader who respects the teaching profession and can galvanize the many talented teachers in our district to move our educational system forward.”
In short, we need a superintendent, who if a vote of confidence were taken after one year, would enjoy the support of teachers, and others who struggle at the educational interface; in the classrooms in the APS.
The likelihood that that will be the result of this selection process is probably remote.
The struggle is between those who have no say in the whole process of education; and those who want to have all of the say. It is a struggle between those who would spend public power and resources in the classroom and on school campuses; and those who would first build fancy seats of power and opulence from which they can then issue their salving global edicts.
School Board President, and the board’s travel agent
for power trips, Paula Maes, will hire a superintendent who will help cover up the district’s relationship with the Modrall law firm.
Robert Lucero will hire a superintendent who will make him feel important and powerful.
Delores Griego is yet to do anything to distance herself from the perception as yet another politica sitting on a school board.
Berna Facio and Gordon Rowe will have trouble taking a stand on anything and will likely go with flow.
Marty Esquivel and Mary Lee Martin are the two board members most likely to listen to all stakeholders and try to make a decision in their best interests.
Considering what happened to Marty Esquivel when he proposed an administrative audit;
it was gutted by Paula Maes, Modrall, et al, who will now conduct an administrative audit that specifically does not audit the conduct and competence of administrators;
and in light of the fact that this board just voted unanimously to adopt as their standard of conduct, a comparatively meaningless and completely unenforceable code of ethics;
…the outcome seems pretty much preordained.
And any effort to change that outcome,
pretty much a waste of time.
