Some Experts, Community Residents Call for Stronger Fort Worth School Board Conflict-of-Interest Policy
A conflict of interest policy is essential to a school board operating ethically and taxpayers and parents are concerned by the history of the conflict-of-interest policy within the Fort Worth Independent School District and lack of disclosures by school officials.
Perception matters and should be taken into account in government conflicts, John Pelissero, senior scholar in government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, said. It’s not just about preventing conflicts, but what could look like a conflict as well.
“Because the perception of something not being proper, is as corrosive to trust that the public has in a school district board or any other local government as would be kind of the overt actions that are clearly a conflict of interest,” Pelissero said.
John Pelissero, senior scholar, quoted by Fort Worth Report.