Update 2: So I have seen a message from President Liza Rankin on why she, Director Evan Briggs, and Director Michelle Sarju backed out of this meeting. In a nutshell: - She says there was no organization to the meeting which is just not true. They had a moderator lined up and naturally the board members could have set parameters for what to discuss, length of meeting, etc. All that was fleshed out. - She also claimed that if the meeting was PTA sponsored, they needed to have liability insurance to use the school space. Hello? PTAs use school space all the time and know they have to have this insurance. - She seems to be worried about the Open Public Meetings law. Look, if she has a meeting in a school building on a non-personnel topic, it should be an open meeting. It appears that Rankin is trying, over and over, to narrow the window of access that parents have to Board members. She even says in her message - "...with decisions made in public." Hmmm - She also says that th
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Wish: That parents across the state of Washington mobilize to elect public education champions to the state legislature in 2016. We are at a crossroads and if the elections turn out the wrong way, we could see the end of public schooling in this state.
DistrictWatcher
Wish: Something changes. Specifically, more funding at the state level, and less money controlled and spent by central administration at the district level.
DistrictWatcher's prediction is also very good. It does seem likely that Nyland will throw a hissy over the new board.
The current confusion in math instruction is unacceptable and has been going on for years. I may be dreaming that they will fix it.
S parent
Wish: the Supreme Court upholds the right of unions to collect dues from agency fee payers
Job Title: Deputy Superintendent
Salary: $178,959.00 - $247,231.00 Annually
Prediction:I'm dreaming ;0(
(Clearly from this job description, Mr. Wright was a busy boy..sigh)
reader47
Prediction: this change is inevitable, but only slowly. Washington will be nearly the last to switch over, perhaps in 30 years.
I share Reader 47's concern and I wish for policies that cap administrative salaries.
Best wishes in the New Year.
Prediction: Bill Gates stops by Olympia to convince legislature that "class size doesn't matter" for poor public school students while on his way to Lakeside to extol the benefits, including the all-important "relationship, of the small classes there to wealthy prospective families.
Wish: That the Supreme Court would take an action so extreme and so bold that the state legislature is compelled to adopt a revenue structure to fully fund education. I don't know what it will take - jailing legislators, closing schools, selling assets - but the Court needs to do it.
Late in the summer the Supreme Court will enter harsher sanctions because of the lack of progress.
We also know that Mayor Ed Murray hired- Jesus Aguirre- the former Washington D.C. superintendent of public schools to run the parks department. Aguirre was also a former and failed charter school operator.
The city of Seattle recently partnered with Tiny Trees, an outdoor prek program. I came across an interesting sentence:
“There’s never been an outdoor [CHARTER] preschool that’s been licensed or aspires for academic outcomes like kindergarten readiness,” Jay said.
http://www.queenannenews.com/Content/News/Breaking-News/Article/Tiny-Trees-takes-preschool-outdoors/26/539/37144
My wish: Ed Murray forgets about any effort to bring charter schools into Seattle, forgets about mayoral control of public education and gets run out of office.
Some monied math lover decides to fund the creation of quality open source math textbooks, and we get a green light to use them.
Predictions: legislature continues to back on funding the McCleary mandate. Erin Jones is elected Superintendent of Public Instruction. Doug Gill, currently OSPI's Assistant Superintendent for Special Education, will finally retire after 30 plus years in his current position. If you want to know the biggest reason why special education is so $?#!@ in this state, you've no further to look than Doug Gill.
Wish: Erin Jones appoints someone to this position who believes special education is about more than compliance, it is about preparing students for further education, employment and independent living.
--GL
Bonus prediction: Ed Murray will think hard about trying a mayoral takeover, then realize he doesn't want to have his re-election [and future governor bid] tied to future SPS dysfunctions.
Wish: The Supreme Court sends legislators to jail for contempt due to obviously inadequate McCleary efforts.
- A big pot of cash
- An equally big pot of patience and empathy for our community, which often is of two or more minds when it comes to replacing and expanding school facilities.
Some are actively hostile to the whole idea.
And my prediction is that my wishes will suffer the fate of the Light Brigade.
-moving out.
Eric, I wish your charter prediction might come true but the charter supporters are all in and frankly, are unlikely to water down any charter bill. But we'll see.
Joe, who is this you are referring to? "...empathy for our community..."
As for that big pot of money, isn't BTA IV on the ballot in a couple of weeks?
I'm sure HS teachers, students and families eagerly await a reduction in the size of THEIR class sizes, as well. ~165 students for one core class teacher is way, way too many.
AR
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