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.)
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They are an affront to our democracy!
Citizen Kane
And, by the way, a little unkind of you to bring this in this thread because these families have been struggling for a very long time to get the district to work with them on a program.
Your unrelenting attacks on the current charter schools and the students and families in them MANY people consider unkind.
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane
That I believe in some efforts and not others makes me a careful person.
I attack charter schools because I don't believe in them. So far, they have not done well by their families and the families unhappiness is very related to the lack of caring on the part of the schools themselves.
Citizen Kane, this is not about me. But you can make it that way if that is your only argument.
Tl;dr: Just putting a bunch of things in a sentence together doesn't make them related.
But ALL of those things ARE related. According to our esteemed state Supreme Court, they are all unconstitutional. They all are schools or school programs funded out of the State General Fund (co-mingled with common school funds) but without oversight of a locally elected board.
And let me give you a hint: Charter schools in large urban cities do work, and better even than the traditional public schools. Check out the CREDO study from 2013 that you anti-vaxxers, er, um, I mean anti-reform folks conveniently ignore.
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Charters just want to be public schools in their neighborhoods...but without elected boards. Unconstitutional, unnecessary, and a distraction.
CDHL is a state agency that provides program evaluations and resources to all school districts state wide (preK to 12). Schools are required by law to report the numbers of deaf and hard of hearing students each year. SPS has not been reporting each year.
Families have been reporting SPS to the state and DOJ for lack of services and programming for many years since the quality of program has deteriorated in the last 20 years. The DHH program has been existing for over 40 years in SPS system. SPS cannot ignore the magnitude of problems it has in the DHH program anymore.
Tribal schools, while operated by sovereign nations, receive funds from the State General Fund. The Supreme Court stated that common school funds are "co-mingled" with other funds and therefore could not be segregated to determine which are common school funds and which aren't. Therefore, any funds out of the State General Fund in support of schools that are not common schools, i.e., in the "total control" of locally elected officials, are unconstitutionally granted to non-common schools.
The same is true of the School for the Blind and CDHL. Fortunately, there are legislators who are supportive of all of these options, including charter schools, who will do right by all of these schools and programs and the students and families they serve. I don't find any of them to be unnecessary nor a distraction. Shame on you for thinking otherwise.
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Sped parent
That you want to pick a fight when the thread is about a group of underserved Special Ed students is appallingly bad behavior.
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