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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Port of Seattle CM Audit
-skeptical-
I understand what skeptical means, but I have seen, time and time again, people completely ignore any facts that contradict their ideology or belief structure - no matter how strong or consistant the data. We are not rational creatures. So the business crowd could continue to support someone who does everything wrong so long as the person continues to make the right noises and project the right image.
Heck, they can just blame all of the failure on the unions or the school board or the students and their families. They can believe that for as long as they have to - regardless of the facts.
The Board better be ready for the sh*t to hit the proverbial fan.
More details here about the PAA event: The Parents Across America Education Forum With Diane Ravitch
It's free and open to the public, just like our PAA/Seattle Ed 2010 forum at Seattle University this past October (where we Skyped Ravitch in to a crowd of about 350), so if any of you are in NY then, come join us. Should be a great night.
--sue p.
"We are hoping to publish the audit in mid-February."
Again with the hoping stuff. I think there are still serious issues (read: legal) that the SAO wants to iron out before publishing this thing. That can't bode well for it.