Via the SPS webpage: The public is invited to attend or stream this forum for candidates for appointment to the District 2 and 4 School Board Director seats. All finalists will have the opportunity to share why they are interested in serving on the Seattle School Board and answer questions selected by the Board and Student Members. More information about the appointment process, including a timeline and candidate webpages, can be found on the appointment process web page . SPSTV Streaming: The meeting will be live streamed on SPSTV and broadcast on television on Comcast 26 (standard-def) and 319 (hi-def), Wave 26 (standard-def) and 695 (hi-def), and Century Link 8008 (standard-def) and 8508 (hi-def). The agenda reflects the above wording - the meeting will be two-and-a-half hours. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 27th at the Performing Arts Center at Lincoln High School, 4400 Interlake Avenue North from 6-8:30 pm. The Board's schedule reflects announcing
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And where does one see the funding allocation for laptops at Cleveland?
Garfield's enrollment projection is for 1,611 in headcount, 1517 adjusted for contact. Garfield's October (adjusted) enrollment was 1,788. March 2011 enrollment (not adjusted) was 1,784. Does anyone buy that boundary tweaking, accelerated IB and attrition will bleed off that many kids? I don't.
You'll notice that NOVA has only 8.85 FTE on the budget allocation.
Compare it to The Center School (266 students to NOVA's 305). NOVA has no teachers, no counselor, no attendance specialist, no Visual Arts Assistant.
Compare it to Rainier Beach (402 students). NOVA has no librarian, no assistant principal, no fiscal specialist, no academic intervention specialist, no data registrar specialist, and no activity coordinator.
NOVA can allocate their money pretty much as they like. They put it into teachers.
Is that $1,392,807.00 for teachers for 305 students at NOVA? $4566.00 per student?
I think that was Po3's question.
Next thing will be to allow gen ed teachers to actually grade all the kids who are taking their classes instead of pretending like the ones who require Level 4 services spend all day in their self contained classrooms and only allowing that teacher to access their files. (Presumably that will happen as ICS rolls up-but it should be happening now.)
The spending per student is equitable; NOVA just gets a lot more discretion about how they spend it. That "per student" allocation is poorly labelled. It should read something like: "money not yet committed to the FTE's shown above".
"Every Student a General Education student First!" NOT.
The WSS demonstrates that, once again, middle and high school students with special needs only count as a fraction of a kid. They can only plant one cheek on their GenEd seat.
SPED parent