Your Superintendent Focus Group Committee
There was this interesting tidbit at the bottom of the Superintendent Search page:
Names of Candidates: The names of the candidates will be kept confidential until the second round of interviews for the finalists in order to allow the highest-caliber of candidate to apply without concern about their current district’s reaction to the application.
So, the public may know who they are but just not hear them speak or ask them questions.
And now drumroll, please.
Names of Candidates: The names of the candidates will be kept confidential until the second round of interviews for the finalists in order to allow the highest-caliber of candidate to apply without concern about their current district’s reaction to the application.
So, the public may know who they are but just not hear them speak or ask them questions.
And now drumroll, please.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Simon Amiel | City Year |
| Janet Anderson | Special Education PTSA |
| Mona Bailey | Retired SPS Deputy Superintendent |
| Stephan Blanford | Community Member |
| Michelle Buetow | Alternative Schools Coalition |
| Linh-Co Burke | Where's the Math? |
| Reuven Carlyle | State Representative, 36th District |
| Rebecca Corpuz | Seattle Indian Health Board |
| Joel Domingo | Community Member |
| Trish Dziko | Technology Access Foundation |
| Rochelle Fonoti | South Pacific Islanders Coalition |
| Frank Irigon | Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans |
| Stephanie Jones | Community & Parents for Public Schools |
| Vu Le | Vietnamese Friendship Association |
| Julie McCoy | Mayor's Office |
| Sara Morris | Alliance for Education |
| Sue Peters | Parents Across America |
| Elizabeth Porter | Community Member |
| Grant Price | Seattle Student Senate |
| Norm Rice | Seattle Foundation |
| Kenny Short | Community Member |
| Ramon Soliz | El Centro de la Raza |
| Tom Stritikus | University of Washington |
| Alan Sugiyama | Asian Pacific Director's Coalition |
| Kevin Washington | Tabor 100 |
Comments
- Analytical One
The first minority and likely the smallest minority by ethnicity is apparently easy to overlook and exclude most of the time.
-good job
Tom Stritikus? Really? So TFA gets a seat?
And I agree with Dan: Native Americans/American Indians continue to be excluded. Promised action after years of malfeasance, then left out. Sort of like when the Duwamish were given land by treaty in 1853, then EVERY citizen of the city of Seattle signed a petition to the Indian commissioner asking him NOT to give them land. Then again in 2000, when Clinton granted them recignition, only to have Bush rescind it just days later...
Overall, a good group, but a member of the Native community would certainly been a better choice than our local TFA booster.
Tom Stritikus? Really? So TFA gets a seat?
And I agree with Dan: Native Americans/American Indians continue to be excluded. Promised action after years of malfeasance, then left out. Sort of like when the Duwamish were given land by treaty in 1853, then EVERY citizen of the city of Seattle signed a petition to the Indian commissioner asking him NOT to give them land. Then again in 2000, when Clinton granted them recignition, only to have Bush rescind it just days later...
Overall, a good group, but a member of the Native community would certainly been a better choice than our local TFA booster.
How do you know that American Indian Alaska Natives were actually excluded? Did any in fact apply? I'm curious why you specified "Alaskan Natives" and not all the other NW tribes?
Just wondering...
Just wondering...
On another front entirely, why does the Puget Sound Alliance of Retired Americans get a seat at the table?
"Rebecca Corpuz - Seattle Indian Health Board"
Indigenous people ought not to have to apply for consideration...
As pointed out above "American Indian Alaska Native" AIAN is the term that refers to a very diverse group that in Canada would be "First Nations People".
When a group exists and has testified frequently about mistreatment and injustice and its claims have been substantiated in audits and confirmed in violations, it seems strange to think that a Bureaucrat from the "Seattle Indian Health Board" would provide adequate "VOICE".
Here is a Linkin Summary for Rebecca Corpuz:
40 years experience in non-profit planning, administration and management. 35 years in community health center.
Goal is to retire before I'm too old to enjoy
Specialties
Strategic Planning, Grantwriting, Human Resources, Administration and management
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This is about the same as having the Head of WEA speak for everyday teachers on any issue.
Could be all ... All politics and no substance.
I think you are missing the main question: Do you know that American Indian Alaska Natives were actually excluded? Did any in fact apply?
If people of all walks of life & of all cultures do not volunteer & step up to the job (and fill out the required application just like everyone else) then how can their voices be represented?
Just wondering...
Part of cultural compentency in the district should be a communication line that is already open and accessible with various communities. This should be a given, in particular, with Native Americans, considering the shameful historical record that exists regarding the schooling of their children in school systems.
Cultural competency also includes how different cultures communicate and "step up" (which might be considered "step on" from a different perspective than the majority culture).
Let's hope that the next superintendent has a clue.
--enough already
Sounds like a zoo.
I guess the district can check off "community engagement". But, I'm sure nobody will be happy in the end.
Another parent
It kind of raises the question of who, on this committee or elsewhere, is a "spokesperson" for a particular group of people, but that's another thread.
That said, I agree with others here who have suggested that IF the district didn't get applications from the NA/AN community, it would have behooved them to reach out. But maybe they did, I have no idea.
while all the bureaucrats may be aware of how to apply to get on the Superintendent Focus Group .... the same may not be true of those in the AIAN population.
Cultural Competence, like the achievement gaps has endless verbiage directed at it .... but when the pedal hits the metal .... nothing much happens in the SPS.
Check out all those WA State "Official" groups that focus achievement gaps.... What a sad record of "Zero" over the last several years. SPS Boards and Superintendents have put up "Big Zeroes" as well.
Please share with me any questions you'd like asked of the superintendent candidates. (Melissa/Charlie -- might that deserve a new thread?)
Thanks.
Sue
(Thanks for the support, Seattle Citizen!)