This may only be a partial list of reasons; please, add anything else in the comments. The deadline to file to run for the Board is May 19th. Entire Board Majority NOT vetting the Superintendent in any way, shape or form. Even the Seattle Times thought that was wrong. It was just absolute hubris and it was wrong. For the second time in just over a year , board members voted to negotiate a superintendent contract during a special meeting with no opportunity for public comment. This time, they showed an even deeper disregard for their responsibilities as public servants: Aborting a national search for a new superintendent and denying Interim Superintendent Brent Jones a chance to show students, parents and taxpayers that, indeed, he is the best person for the job. Government bodies can’t fast-forward through transparent processes just because they think they know the right answer. One other odd thing about the hiring of Brent Jones - most permanent SPS superintendent contracts ar
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One person, according to the article, who is now running in West Seattle is Steve Sundquist.
Here's a blurb about him from OneNW, an environmental group.
"Steve Sundquist is a community leader and volunteer in Seattle. Formerly the Managing Director of National Accounts and the Chief Information Officer at Russell Investment Group, he is currently putting these skills to work in the non-profit community. In addition to his work at ONE/Northwest, he is a Trustee of the WSU Foundation and a member of WSU's Honors College Advisory Board; a lead partner for Social Venture Partners; and Vice Moderator at Fauntleroy Church, UCC."
He looks like a person with a broad background with a special interest in environmental issues.
During the Phase II closures, when three West Seattle schools were directly threatened, did she step up? I don't remember her doing that.
Did she look after the interests and needs of the Pathfinder community? Why isn't a building for Pathfinder on BEX III? Did she look out for Roxhill or Cooper families?
She didn't object when yellow bus transportation to Washington for West Seattle Spectrum students was revoked.
She hasn't demanded that the District provide a Spectrum school for the West Seattle-South cluster. It is the only elementary cluster in the District without Spectrum.
She hasn't taken a lead on the four period day issue at West Seattle High School. I can't think of anything that she has done for Denny or Sealth, for that matter.
I'm not so sure that her seat was all that safe. She didn't look out for her District constituents very well, did she?