Talk to KING 5 about BEX IV?
Meg Coyle over at KING-5 news is looking for a parent(s) who were affected by school closures and now see the BEX IV levy through that lens. Anyone who can talk to her about it?
mcoyle@king5.com
mcoyle@king5.com
Tuesday Open Thread
The speaker list is up for the Board meeting tomorrow; not as packed as I thought with just four people on the waitlist. The majority of the speakers are speaking on high school boundaries (with several wanting to talk about Ballard High). There are only three of us speaking about the Green Dot resolution asking the City to not grant the zoning departures that Green Dot has requested. It's me, long-time watchdog, Chris Jackins, and the head of the Washington State Charter Schools Association, Patrick D'Amelio. (I knew Mr. D'Amelio when he headed the Alliance for Education and Big Brothers and Big Sisters; he's a stand-up guy.)
Comments
Maria Goodloe-Johnson is gone now, but a few SPS board directors remain who approved the fiasco and allowed it to happen. They should also step down. There has to be accountability.
The closure of Cooper means we now have to find Schmitz Park a $$$$ new home. The real tragedy tough was what it did to the Cooper kids.
Based on that one move alone, I STILL smile that Sundquist lost. He did nothing for our community on capacity issues.
DistrictWatcher
PS: My friend is reminding me that perhaps there is a parent from Olympic View out there. They closed that school, threw out the wonderful autism inclusion program, had the building stripped down by vandals and now voila: we just reopened it at a cost of millions and millions of unnecessary dollars. Thank you Goodloe-Johnson!
Do the education elites (Alliance, LEV) really not GET the depth of taxpayer anger and the power of appearances?
This "ask" needs to be double squeaky clean. Maier right now is a misstep. So is the SLU school, although I am still hoping it will be dropped.
-skeptical-
Olympic View
Cooper
Lowell APP (it was the closure of TTM that resulted in the APP split, the cohousing with an attendance school, and the resulting loss of any school building at all for the SNAPP program)
NOVA
Summit K12?
Another group, slightly harder to tease out, are families aat schools that will NOT be fixed, rebuilt, etc. during BEX IV because the money they should have gotten will go to fixing the closure problem. This is real damage, to real families, but harder to quantify because while some schools pretty legitimately might have thought they would be included, there was no "firm" list-- and thus, no clear delineation of who bears the brunt of the governance/management folly that surrounded the 2009 closures.
Seattle Public Schools needs to tighten money controls
"If Seattle Public Schools wants voters to approve $1 billion for construction and operations, it must learn to keep better track of the money it has...." and it goes on to focus mainly on the Van Asselt situation.
Seattle Public Schools needs to tighten money controls
"If Seattle Public Schools wants voters to approve $1 billion for construction and operations, it must learn to keep better track of the money it has...." and it goes on to focus mainly on the Van Asselt situation.
PS mom
I don't agree with this sentence either, because
1. There was the split first and then next year they closed the TT Minor (that is how Mr King, from TT MInor, could be the principal at Lowell)
2. Lowell APP would have needed to move out from the Capitol Hill building anyway. Last year or this year the latest, looking at the enrollment numbers.
- LL
The split and closures were voted on in January (or thereabouts) and put in place the Fall of that year.
If all of APP remained at Lowell (too far away for some families), would the enrollment have increased as much as it has these past two years??
who knows
You might be thinking of Rainier view.
open ears