Via the SPS webpage: The public is invited to attend or stream this forum for candidates for appointment to the District 2 and 4 School Board Director seats. All finalists will have the opportunity to share why they are interested in serving on the Seattle School Board and answer questions selected by the Board and Student Members. More information about the appointment process, including a timeline and candidate webpages, can be found on the appointment process web page . SPSTV Streaming: The meeting will be live streamed on SPSTV and broadcast on television on Comcast 26 (standard-def) and 319 (hi-def), Wave 26 (standard-def) and 695 (hi-def), and Century Link 8008 (standard-def) and 8508 (hi-def). The agenda reflects the above wording - the meeting will be two-and-a-half hours. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 27th at the Performing Arts Center at Lincoln High School, 4400 Interlake Avenue North from 6-8:30 pm. The Board's schedule reflects announcing
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I'm glad to hear they won't be moved right away.
-CT
MGJ and Enfield are gone, but Burgess continues their work.
Notice that the projected enrollment at Rainier Beach High School next year is 320? Yet that school gets all of the staff that WSS dictates. NOVA, projected to have 308, gets significantly less funding.
This is not the special funding for ELL students or for students with IEPs, or even LAP money for under-performing students. The non-traditional schools are cheated out of the basic funding that the District says every school needs just to operate.
Spending on Basic Education teaching for 320 students at Rainier Beach (pdf page 75) comes to $1,369,012.
Spending on Basic Education teaching for 308 students at NOVA (pdf page 247) comes to $1,225,786. The District provides RBHS with an additional $143,226 to teach 12 more students.
The real inequity, however, comes in the other basic spending for every school.
The only other money provided to NOVA to operate the school - not counting funding for special needs students - is $257,731. RBHS, however, gets $825,760. That's $568,000 that NOVA is denied because... well, for no reason at all.
IMHO
The word Racial was not put back in the title of the document. Sharon Peaslee and Betty Patu were the only two directors who advocated that it be put back in the document. As for Harium Martin-Morris's monologue.... all I can say is what a great disappointment. Sadly, it didn't come as a surprise. I say we send mass emails to the directors voicing our opinions.
Harium gets more and more detached. It's very odd behavior to watch.
I have sent an email to the Directors and to Bernardo Ruiz stating it is imperative that "racial" be added back to the policy's name to reflect the original intent to eliminate institutional racism in the district. Many thanks to Directors Patu and Peaslee for advocating for this.