Friday Open Thread
Heads up on some traffic news for this weekend - closures at Aurora and N. 85th, Mercer Street at South Lake Union and westbound South Spokane Street from I-5 off-ramps to Hwy 99. The Times reports that an average of 140,000 vehicles pass through these three areas in a weekend.
Nothing at the Times about the Creative Approach Schools (Brian Rosenthal has been moved to reporting on the campaigns for this election season so there's a new person.)
What's on your mind?
Nothing at the Times about the Creative Approach Schools (Brian Rosenthal has been moved to reporting on the campaigns for this election season so there's a new person.)
What's on your mind?
Comments
SavvyVoter
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018614556_creativeapproach6m.html
As I posted elsewhere, the Board could amend it in August, go to SEA for a vote on this one change in September and be approved by the Board in late September.
It's really up to the Board and the SEA.
The Times' article says:
"The board hoped school applications would be approved by November and the first programs start in fall 2013."
If you follow my timeline, that's still possible.
I would hope the Board would NOT appeal this decision as the RCW is fairly clear. They should, if they want to keep this idea, amend it with them having oversight.
says...
Another reason to think twice about approving more funds for SPS this spring...the newest state audit report...which says the district doesn't place a priority on keeping track of what it already has. Thousands of dollars of waste. And a separate troubling thing: paying for general ed teachers with special ed funds. Wow.
gnarly
Jayne Fraser has the ed beat for the near future.
jw
"Great news! RT @secstatewa Backers of WA charter school I-1240 have submitted over 350k sigs to SecState, far more than required minimum."
read this public disclosure.
It shows once again Sara Morris at The Alliance for Education, Holly Miller at The Mayor's Office, Burgess, Stand for Children and LEV working in a tight little subgroup to map out this city's education future and policies.
And PS: They didn't like the Creative Approach Schools one bit, apparently.
DistrictWatcher (who Intensely Dislikes the Behind-the-Scenes EduBorgs)
Renton TFA emails
Disappointing but really, to be expected.
And they didn't even get into the special education issues, which I understand are very bad, including misspending of SPED $$ at Ballard. Isn't Marni Campbell, the principal at Ballard, the SPED director who was moved out of that position last year? And now she is not managing even one site's SPED program correctly? Principals have a huge, hard job, but really...unimpressive.
SavvyVoter
ITK