Kent Walz fails his friends in the leadership of the APS

If Journal Managing Editor Kent Walz can offer the community a report on administrative and executive standards and accountability, he should. He would be doing his friends a huge favor.

He could quell in one front page story, all the persistent and diametrically opposite rumors and allegations of a profound lack of standards and accountability that apply to the wielding of our power and the spending of our resources.

If the leadership of the APS has provided for themselves, honest accountability to meaningful standards of conduct and competence, they deserve to have their courage and character and competence recognized.

Why won't Walz help them out?
Why is he keeping their success a secret?

Why is he keeping interest holders in the dark about how well the spending of their power and resources is being administered?

Isn't it newsworthy?

There are many in the community who think the leadership of the APS is rife with corruption and incompetence. The very best thing in the world Walz could do for his friends on the Board and in the senior administration, would be to assure the community that their standards and accountability are high enough to protect the public interests in the public schools.

Walz is letting his friends down.

Why won't he help them out?
Why won't he sing their praise?

He has time and space to publish school lunch menus, has he no space for a report that completely exonerates his friends from years of allegations of a lack of standards and accountability?

The leadership of the APS will come to us in a few months for support for another bond issue. Walz could guarantee the passage of the bond issue, by simply pointing to the high standards and accountability that will assure taxpayers that their money will be well spent.

Walz could offer a candid, forthright and honest accounting of the spending at 6400 Uptown Blvd. He could assure taxpayers that the leadership of the APS can spend public resources wisely and well.

Why won't he?

Why won't he assure the community that there is not an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS?

What kind of a friend is he?




photos Mark Bralley