Why You Should Care Mr. Crabill has found quite the acolyte in Director Chandra Hampson. In the course of discussions over SOFG, she says his name over and over, "A.J .says we...." Now that's not too surprising given the direction the district is heading and that it is Mr. Crabill's work with the Council of Great City Schools is how we got here. But it appears that Mr. Crabill is working very closely with Hampson and we know she wields some amount of power over the majority of the Board. Mr. Crabill is going to continue to work with the Board as SOFG is instituted in SPS. In fact, his role may become more public as it did at one SPS Board meeting in the spring where he was on the phone during the meeting and suggested the Board stop the meeting to "self-reflect." I also noticed that in a district in South Carolina, when things weren't going to plan, he blamed the Board for not following SOFG to the letter. Look for that to happen here if Board members w
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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She didn't object when yellow bus transportation to Washington for West Seattle Spectrum students was revoked.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?