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Seattle Schools Organizational Charts
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Here are the latest org charts that I could find for SPS departments (as requested by one reader.)
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Anonymous said…
These are soooo outdated.
-DJ
Anonymous said…
Wow - that's alot of people in administration - I'm sure it could be streamlined. And why so many people in the Preschool program - I'd like to see some of those personnel get paid by the City of Seattle instead of Seattle Public Schools. The Preschool program is a City of Seattle Program - isn't that right?
"Wow - that's alot of people in administration - I'm sure it could be streamlined. And why so many people in the Preschool program - I'd like to see some of those personnel get paid by the City of Seattle instead of Seattle Public Schools. The Preschool program is a City of Seattle Program - isn't that right?"
repost for Anonymous.
Good point. When directors ask whether City PreK dollars are covering ALL the costs for their preschool, admin insists it does. They even went on to say that SPS will be reimbursed for the actual costs (if salaries etc run over). I don't believe that. The grant amount is the grant amount. As it stands, we're still out the 25% holdback for performance measures.
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.)
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, grief, that is to come fro
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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-DJ
repost for Anonymous.
Good point. When directors ask whether City PreK dollars are covering ALL the costs for their preschool, admin insists it does. They even went on to say that SPS will be reimbursed for the actual costs (if salaries etc run over). I don't believe that. The grant amount is the grant amount. As it stands, we're still out the 25% holdback for performance measures.