Reminder of School Board Candidate Forums

Update: there is another Saturday School Board candidate forum.

Squire Park Community Council Quarterly with Seattle School Board Candidates from 10 am thru non at Centerstone, 722 18th Avenue.

Note: this is a meeting and the candidate forum starts around 10:30ish.  

End of update

The other is on Saturday.  It's the Vietnamese American Community of Seattle‏ event from 11 am to 1 pm at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center at 3515 South Alaska Street.  This looks like a full event of City Council, ballot measures and School Board candidates.   The Board candidates look to be starting at 12:15 pm. This looks like more of a discussion than an actual debate.

Also to note for tomorrow, Sat the 10th, Director Carr is having a Community meeting from 8:30-10am at the Hearthstone on Green Lake.  (There was one parent at the Board meeting who, in giving her testimony, was shouting and practically hyperventilating at the podium.  She promised to be at Carr's meeting so it could be interesting.)

Comments

Anonymous said…
Seattle City Council candidates will be at Nathan Hale tonight from 7-9PM. Candidates for districts 5, 8 and 9.

HP
10/8/15, 5:05 PM
Anonymous said…
There is also an school board candidate forum on Monday, Oct 12th from 7:30 - 9:00 PM in the Eckstein auditorium.

~FYI
10/8/15, 9:13 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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.)
Read more

Breaking It Down: Where the District Might Close Schools

Update 2: an absolutely fabulous interactive map made by parent Beth Day (@thebethocracy on Twitter - she covers Board meetings and is fun to read).   end of update    Update 1: Mea culpa, I did indeed get Decatur and Thornton Creek mixed up. Thanks to all for the correction. end of update   I suspect some who read this post will be irate. Why do this? Because the district seems very hellbent on this effort with no oversight skid marks from the Board.    To clearly state - I do not believe that closing 20 schools is a good idea. I think they hit on 20 because they thought it might bring in the most savings. But the jury is still out on the savings because the district has not shown its work nor its data. I suspect closing schools and THEN leasing/renting them is the big plan but that means the district really has to keep the buildings up.   But this district, with its happy talk about "well-resourced schools" is NOT acknowledging the pain and yes, gr...
Read more

Education News Roundup

From the ever-amusing Washington Policy Center : Vouchers are Pell Grants for students under 18.  Vouchers are no different than Pell Grants or GI benefits, except the money goes to the families of students younger than age 18.  Except they are. Pell Grants were created to help needy students and that's not really the goal of the voucher program.  The Pell grant website does have a couple of great studies on why low-income students drop out before finishing their higher ed and what makes a difference.
Read more