BEX Work Session Today.
Off to the BEX Work Session. Here's the presentation. Will Tweet if anything urgently good comes up.
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
Downtown School
• Construct new 500 seat K-5
• City and District forecasts of school population growth in the area are not fully validated at the present time
• Potential constraints: Site is not identified; development constraints unknown
I find this unexpected and perhaps a small subset of total Seattle voters. But a perspective to be considered.
EdVoter
Sherry and Kay pushed back heavily on downtown school. I believe it is weakening. More on this later.
The Advanced Learning Taskforce has not come out with its recommendation (probably end of month) so no news there.
I think anyone can take any principled stand on why they do or do not vote for a school levy or bond. But a good time to take that stand is early and loudly so the district and Board positions the BEX for the best possible outcome at the ballot box
This is no shoo-in and they would be wise to consider that.
Rif Harman and company. No one would miss their lazy book keeping ways.
I vote no
Where is the data to support this assertion? Was it another business owner or two who said, yeah sounds okay.
Dizzy
I VOTE NO
Thanks.
I find it frustrating that the presentation is available online, but not the spreadsheet with the timeline.
North End Mom
I looked through the presentation. The timeline spreadsheet is not one of the presentation slides. Are you saying there is a link to the spreadsheet somewhere in the presentation?
-North End Mom
I don't know about you but NONE of my comments are reflected here. It would appear that everyone in West Seattle and online are hunky-dory with a South Lake Union school. Who is perverting this process and misleading the board?