Please let us know if you attend the rally before the meeting. Seeing photos from Twitter; looks like a good crowd at the rally. The West Seattle Blog is there reporting. I am going to attempt to live blog so you will see abbreviations, spelling/grammar errors, etc. I will clean it up but I think it is worth trying to do. I will be refreshing the page as I go. I am sad to see that apparently President Liza Rankin is not even going to allow 10 people over the regular 20 to testify. Just five. Also, right at the beginning, the Board has stuck in, after Board comments, a Progress Monitoring presentation. They could have put it at the end but they didn't. They think - in 45 minutes - they can do Superintendent comments, Board comments and this presentation. I doubt that public testimony will start on-time. Tone-deaf doesn't even cover it with Board leadership. To note, apparently the district scheduled the NE community meeting on closures on Rosh Hashanah which is October 2. I
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This document affirms our assertions that charter schools will take dollars from our already under-funded public schools. Thus, putting more students at risk.
From the document:
"fiscal impact to school districts is indeterminant, but non-zero."
K
http://wsptagrassroots.blogspot.com/2012/08/wspta-opposes-charter-school-initiative.html
signed,
pleased ptsa parent
That's the sum of the costs that they could estimate. There are a lot of additional costs that the OFM acknowledged would be there, but they couldn't estimate.