Please let us know if you attend the rally before the meeting. Seeing photos from Twitter; looks like a good crowd at the rally. The West Seattle Blog is there reporting. I am going to attempt to live blog so you will see abbreviations, spelling/grammar errors, etc. I will clean it up but I think it is worth trying to do. I will be refreshing the page as I go. I am sad to see that apparently President Liza Rankin is not even going to allow 10 people over the regular 20 to testify. Just five. Also, right at the beginning, the Board has stuck in, after Board comments, a Progress Monitoring presentation. They could have put it at the end but they didn't. They think - in 45 minutes - they can do Superintendent comments, Board comments and this presentation. I doubt that public testimony will start on-time. Tone-deaf doesn't even cover it with Board leadership. To note, apparently the district scheduled the NE community meeting on closures on Rosh Hashanah which is October 2. I
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Yes, LEV stirred the pot and the result is good people are in a generally pissed off mood with each other over yes/no on charters. Thanks a lot LEV. Your "help" isn't "helping".
Southie
PS: Yes, we have noticed that you quietly took over foundation work at the New School.
Yes, my thought was also that Pettigrew doesn't want to publicly receive the ire of his constituents. That would have made for some great press!
Southie, thanks for the update on the New School. LEV has taken over that charter school look-alike? Well, well, well.
Dora
As for the principal, this is the second time that she has stepped out of line - I think the superintendent knows it's important that principals understand and respect the rules and policies of the Board.