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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"Highlights of my upcoming outreach to parents, students and the community include:
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Coffee with the Superintendent: The first of these will be next Tuesday, March 29th, from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. the Central Library,1000 Fourth Avenue, 10th floor, Betty Jane Narver Reading Room. Additional coffee chats will follow throughout the year. All are open to the general public."
Details Of: Superintendent Coffee Chat
Date: 3/29/2011 (8:00 AM - 9:00 AM)
Calendar: Seattle Public Schools (Special Event)
Description: Community coffee chat with Dr. Susan Enfield, Interim Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools.
Seattle Public Library
Central Library
1000 Fourth Avenue
10th Floor
Betty Jane Narver Reading Room
Open to the general public. Additional coffee chats will follow throughout the year.
Contact: Alliance For Education
info@alliance4ed.org
(206) 343-0449
http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/index.cfm?fa=opinions.showOpinion&filename=650360MAJ
The appeals court found for the district in the appeal: paraphrasing, the Board decision was not "arbitrary or capricious or illegal."