Update 2: So I have seen a message from President Liza Rankin on why she, Director Evan Briggs, and Director Michelle Sarju backed out of this meeting. In a nutshell: - She says there was no organization to the meeting which is just not true. They had a moderator lined up and naturally the board members could have set parameters for what to discuss, length of meeting, etc. All that was fleshed out. - She also claimed that if the meeting was PTA sponsored, they needed to have liability insurance to use the school space. Hello? PTAs use school space all the time and know they have to have this insurance. - She seems to be worried about the Open Public Meetings law. Look, if she has a meeting in a school building on a non-personnel topic, it should be an open meeting. It appears that Rankin is trying, over and over, to narrow the window of access that parents have to Board members. She even says in her message - "...with decisions made in public." Hmmm - She also says that th
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Why would anyone bother to post this? I read Educating Mom blog and she does read this blog and posts topics from this blog as well. Also, both the principal topic and student assignment topic have been covered prior to Beth's posts, so what you post doesn't make sense.
I think it's great to have multiple blogs regarding SPS and I enjoy reading both of these daily.
Remember, it takes a village - and at least two Seattle education blogs - to raise Seattle's children.