Here's the agenda for tonight's Board meeting. I note that people can no longer sign up to speak at a Board meeting by phone. It is strictly by online sign-up. Not good. Public Testimony seems to cover two topics. Apparently, the Chinese program at West Seattle High School is in jeopardy and there are several speakers for that issue. The other issue is, of course, school closures. There are six people on the waitlist. Here's the latest from the Times which says that " Seattle Could Close about a quarter of its elementary schools." First, that would be a heck of a lot of schools (17) and two, only elementaries? My cynical side is that the district is throwing out a big number so they can "generously" only close 10-12. The article claims that the district is taking "$32M from its reserves" which is not true; they have no reserves. I think the reporter means capital reserves. I'll be tuning in with updates. 4:15 pm and has the 4:15
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Sad 2Eparent
Charlotte Cassidy
Kathleen George
Jeannette Cohen
Howard Powers
All attorneys who have provided excellent guidance to SpEd families in SPS.
Good luck!
Another one
Right on. The million dollar SPS sped manual is also top secret. If a parent read it, their eyes would burn right out of their heads. O yeah. OSPI forced SPS to write that manual, and to pay top dollar.
Speddie
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MJ
Speddie, you exaggerate. The internal special education procedure manual is online at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ECvYkK5CgodzhJNFZ0aFVxeVk/view. I have read it, and my eyes have not burned out of my head. The district had to come up with an internal procedure manual, because the old "let every employee fly by the seat of their pants" manual wasn't working out so good for all involved. And guess what, yes, they did have to pay someone to do it, because they were not capable of doing it themselves.
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