Tuesday Open Thread
Have you read thru the District's budgets?
One funny thing is the cover with "Three Goals - 50,000 Journeys." Last I looked the District was near 53,000 students. What about the other 3,000? Also, page 54, where they show the broad breakdown of "Expenditures" - it adds up to 99%, not 100%. Must be that Common Core Math. And guess who's spending is going up the most within SPS? Central at 16.4% (but they still like to contend they are only 5.8% of the budget with 800 people working at JSCEE).
Important new ruling from the State Supreme court on sealing juvenile records. Story from Crosscut.
He was talking about the Washington Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday that resoundingly affirmed the constitutionality of letting youthful offenders start their adult lives without the door-slamming stigmata of public criminal records.
There was the hard-won Youth Opportunities Act, passed by the Legislature last year, which makes sealing of records automatic for minors who commit nonviolent, non-sex-related crimes and settle their court debts; and this year’s Youth Equality and Reintegration Act, which amplifies that first law by relieving young offenders of most of the onerous legal financial obligations (or LFOs) that keep them from settling their tabs and starting fresh. (For more details, see Part 1 and Part 2 of Crosscut’s series on sealing juvenile records.)
Seattle/King County are making their volunteer lists now for the next free medical clinic weekend at Seattle Center in October. If you are a medical professional or just want to help wrangle people, please consider signing up to help.
The University of Puget Sound is dropping its use of the SAT, reports the Seattle Times.
More computer science grads from UW? Could be coming as Microsoft has just donated $10M to kick-start a fund for a second new Computer Science and Engineering building at UW.
Microsoft’s gift represents the first corporate commitment to a public-private partnership to assemble $110 million in funding to construct a new 130,000-square-foot CSE building. The new facility will provide the capacity needed to double the number of degrees we award annually.
One funny thing is the cover with "Three Goals - 50,000 Journeys." Last I looked the District was near 53,000 students. What about the other 3,000? Also, page 54, where they show the broad breakdown of "Expenditures" - it adds up to 99%, not 100%. Must be that Common Core Math. And guess who's spending is going up the most within SPS? Central at 16.4% (but they still like to contend they are only 5.8% of the budget with 800 people working at JSCEE).
Important new ruling from the State Supreme court on sealing juvenile records. Story from Crosscut.
He was talking about the Washington Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday that resoundingly affirmed the constitutionality of letting youthful offenders start their adult lives without the door-slamming stigmata of public criminal records.
There was the hard-won Youth Opportunities Act, passed by the Legislature last year, which makes sealing of records automatic for minors who commit nonviolent, non-sex-related crimes and settle their court debts; and this year’s Youth Equality and Reintegration Act, which amplifies that first law by relieving young offenders of most of the onerous legal financial obligations (or LFOs) that keep them from settling their tabs and starting fresh. (For more details, see Part 1 and Part 2 of Crosscut’s series on sealing juvenile records.)
Seattle/King County are making their volunteer lists now for the next free medical clinic weekend at Seattle Center in October. If you are a medical professional or just want to help wrangle people, please consider signing up to help.
The University of Puget Sound is dropping its use of the SAT, reports the Seattle Times.
More computer science grads from UW? Could be coming as Microsoft has just donated $10M to kick-start a fund for a second new Computer Science and Engineering building at UW.
Microsoft’s gift represents the first corporate commitment to a public-private partnership to assemble $110 million in funding to construct a new 130,000-square-foot CSE building. The new facility will provide the capacity needed to double the number of degrees we award annually.
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reader47
reader47
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North End Parent
HP
- annr
Help?
That's double-secret information available on a need-to-know basis. And the public doesn't need to know apparently.
Jeez!
Maybe you had something you didn't want people to see.
Help, tell me who you are looking for and I might have it.
As for email addresses - try the doing a google search for the person's last name with phrase "@seattleschools.org" - you should get a hit or two with the person's email address.
reader47
-Whew!
-whew
Now if that doesn't give pause to PTAs and parent groups for funding staff positions, then I don't know what will.
It was interesting to read the comments from others who had weight trained at Hale. They seem to not believe the plaintiff. The district is probably correct to settle rather than risk a court trial.
I hope this doesn't discourage Hale and other schools to not support this type of training. Not everyone can afford to go to Bellevue's trainer. This training is provided to the kids at no cost to them.
HP
http://washingtonpolicy.org/blog/post/state-commission-consider-closing-seattle-charter-school
Her position seems a bit slanted for this charter and against the district. She fails to talk about actual violations by the charter school.
-- Dan Dempsey
Considering how high profile this first charter school was, it is surprising they could not fix their problems. Perhaps it is not as easy to run a school as the Washington Policy Center seems to think. Especially for disadvantaged students.
My opinion is that charters are a big distraction and we should be fully funding and supporting public schools.
S parent
The Source will close July 2, 2015 to prepare for the 2015-16 school year. It will reopen September 9, 2015.
just fyi
HP
-SPS OT
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Seattle-teacher-dodges-sex-offender-registration-308329801.html
HP