Seattle Schools This Week
Monday, June 18th
Continuing high school graduations. Go get 'em, kids.
Tuesday, June 19th
Continuing high school graduations. But don't forget the sunscreen.
Wednesday, June 20th
Last Board meeting of this school year. Agenda. There appear to be a number of interesting items including the contract between LEV and the district for South Shore (and it looks more like a newish contract than a renewal because of the passage of time since the old MOU was created), vote on the Advertising and Commercial activities policy,and renewal of NWEA contract.
Intro items include policy 2200, Program Placement (now called "Equitable Access to Services & Programs). I haven't read this yet but Charlie tweeted that it did not appear to make understanding program placement any better. Also, there is intro of the 2012-2013 Operations and Capital budgets which I really haven't looked at yet.
There's also always an odd item like the increase in spending for ASB by $225k. There is more explanation of why they are legally able to do this than why it is happening. I must have missed this discussion but apparently:
Expenditures for the ASB fund for 2011-2012 were estimated in April-May of 2011 and
approved by the Board in July of 2011. Expenditures are now at a higher percentage of the total
annual expenditures than in any previous year, and may exceed the original estimate (adopted
budget).
Okay, I'll bite - how did this happen? Anyone?
Thursday, June 21st
(Summer Solistice - supposed to be a good weather day for the longest day of the year).
Operations Committee Meeting from 4-6 p.m. No agenda available yet.
Friday, June 22nd
Happy to say for all, the last day of school for 2011-2012.
Continuing high school graduations. Go get 'em, kids.
Tuesday, June 19th
Continuing high school graduations. But don't forget the sunscreen.
Wednesday, June 20th
Last Board meeting of this school year. Agenda. There appear to be a number of interesting items including the contract between LEV and the district for South Shore (and it looks more like a newish contract than a renewal because of the passage of time since the old MOU was created), vote on the Advertising and Commercial activities policy,and renewal of NWEA contract.
Intro items include policy 2200, Program Placement (now called "Equitable Access to Services & Programs). I haven't read this yet but Charlie tweeted that it did not appear to make understanding program placement any better. Also, there is intro of the 2012-2013 Operations and Capital budgets which I really haven't looked at yet.
There's also always an odd item like the increase in spending for ASB by $225k. There is more explanation of why they are legally able to do this than why it is happening. I must have missed this discussion but apparently:
Expenditures for the ASB fund for 2011-2012 were estimated in April-May of 2011 and
approved by the Board in July of 2011. Expenditures are now at a higher percentage of the total
annual expenditures than in any previous year, and may exceed the original estimate (adopted
budget).
Okay, I'll bite - how did this happen? Anyone?
Thursday, June 21st
(Summer Solistice - supposed to be a good weather day for the longest day of the year).
Operations Committee Meeting from 4-6 p.m. No agenda available yet.
Friday, June 22nd
Happy to say for all, the last day of school for 2011-2012.
Comments
To answer your question Melissa - How could that happen? Because people are not paying attention to the money they are spending. They don't realize - or don't care - that there are limited funds available. They don't care where the money comes from (taxpayers) as long as it makes the students feel better. What better way to teach a lesson to youngsters than to let them know there are limits and that they can't have everything they want? Instead, nobody reigns in their spending.
SavvyVoter
10 more months plus this week to go
Sign me
"Thanks for nothing"
10 more months and 3 days!
Bake sale? Not during school hours. That would be a violation of the competitive foods policy.