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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I'm glad to hear they won't be moved right away.
-CT
MGJ and Enfield are gone, but Burgess continues their work.
Notice that the projected enrollment at Rainier Beach High School next year is 320? Yet that school gets all of the staff that WSS dictates. NOVA, projected to have 308, gets significantly less funding.
This is not the special funding for ELL students or for students with IEPs, or even LAP money for under-performing students. The non-traditional schools are cheated out of the basic funding that the District says every school needs just to operate.
Spending on Basic Education teaching for 320 students at Rainier Beach (pdf page 75) comes to $1,369,012.
Spending on Basic Education teaching for 308 students at NOVA (pdf page 247) comes to $1,225,786. The District provides RBHS with an additional $143,226 to teach 12 more students.
The real inequity, however, comes in the other basic spending for every school.
The only other money provided to NOVA to operate the school - not counting funding for special needs students - is $257,731. RBHS, however, gets $825,760. That's $568,000 that NOVA is denied because... well, for no reason at all.
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The word Racial was not put back in the title of the document. Sharon Peaslee and Betty Patu were the only two directors who advocated that it be put back in the document. As for Harium Martin-Morris's monologue.... all I can say is what a great disappointment. Sadly, it didn't come as a surprise. I say we send mass emails to the directors voicing our opinions.
Harium gets more and more detached. It's very odd behavior to watch.
I have sent an email to the Directors and to Bernardo Ruiz stating it is imperative that "racial" be added back to the policy's name to reflect the original intent to eliminate institutional racism in the district. Many thanks to Directors Patu and Peaslee for advocating for this.