Tuesday Open Thread
I'll have a separate thread on the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy that splits up families but I urge you to stand up against it. There will be a Families Belong Together protest this coming Saturday, June 30th at the SeaTac Detention Center, 2425 S 200th St, Seattle at 10 am.
Directions: Link Light Rail to the Angle Lake station is best. The detention center is right across the street.
Please note: we don't need to hear from anyone saying, "But the parents broke the law." Right upfront, I'd say yes, that is true. But children should never be hurt for the sins of their parents. There was no need to do this, it's clear the administration has no idea who is where and this may take months or even years to unravel.
Imagine if it were your child. Enough said (I hope).
I attended both Work Sessions yesterday on the Facilities Master Plan/BEX V and Waitlists. The Board asked some very good and very direct questions. I'll do a full thread but here's the link to the two presentations. Chock-full of interesting (and somewhat astonishing) data (Franklin High more underenrolled than Rainier Beach?) I direct you to the following pages:
The Seattle Times' Danny Westneat had some thoughts on SPS as his daughter graduated from Garfield this year. He points out the strides (and storms) that the district has been thru in those years and finds good in it.
Good news, bad news from the Capital Hill Seattle Blog:
CB 119256 will set up funding to power the Mayor’s ORCA Opportunity program to provide the passes to Seattle Public School students at no charge at a cost of about $4 million per year.
But, if approved Monday afternoon, another part of the $11.5 million annual boost in transportation spending from new sales tax and vehicle license fees implemented in 2014 would go to a limited private bus system.
The update on the private bus service:
Committee chair Mike O’Brien has pushed a vote on the legislation back two weeks to pound out issues around the private operator plan.
What's on your mind?
Directions: Link Light Rail to the Angle Lake station is best. The detention center is right across the street.
Please note: we don't need to hear from anyone saying, "But the parents broke the law." Right upfront, I'd say yes, that is true. But children should never be hurt for the sins of their parents. There was no need to do this, it's clear the administration has no idea who is where and this may take months or even years to unravel.
Imagine if it were your child. Enough said (I hope).
I attended both Work Sessions yesterday on the Facilities Master Plan/BEX V and Waitlists. The Board asked some very good and very direct questions. I'll do a full thread but here's the link to the two presentations. Chock-full of interesting (and somewhat astonishing) data (Franklin High more underenrolled than Rainier Beach?) I direct you to the following pages:
- 41-43 - info on each school building and site classification
- 44-46 - school demographics
- 51 - ed specs page
- 57 - schools in the worst condition - I would consider this page to list the ONLY schools under consideration for BEX V (except the staff's baby, a downtown high school/elementary school)
- 58 - Facilities rankings, worst to best. Worst elementary? Alki. Worst middle school? Whitman. Worst K-8? Salmon Bay. Worst high school? Ingraham (which I call BS on - the amount of capital funding that has poured into Ingraham pales in comparison to RBHS).
- 96 - Ever wanted to know about other land the district owns but is leased? Here it is.
The Seattle Times' Danny Westneat had some thoughts on SPS as his daughter graduated from Garfield this year. He points out the strides (and storms) that the district has been thru in those years and finds good in it.
Good news, bad news from the Capital Hill Seattle Blog:
CB 119256 will set up funding to power the Mayor’s ORCA Opportunity program to provide the passes to Seattle Public School students at no charge at a cost of about $4 million per year.
But, if approved Monday afternoon, another part of the $11.5 million annual boost in transportation spending from new sales tax and vehicle license fees implemented in 2014 would go to a limited private bus system.
The update on the private bus service:
Committee chair Mike O’Brien has pushed a vote on the legislation back two weeks to pound out issues around the private operator plan.
What's on your mind?
Comments
Thanks!
HP
HP
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/high-school/ingraham-high-school-will-get-extreme-makeover-treatment-8212-from-espn/
no BS
The enrollment numbers are on the last two pages. The capacity forecasts for the future are provided earlier on but as bar graphs without a lot of detail, although they give a rough idea. Hard to see any page numbers, though...
Either resource room or self contained?
The answer is behind Door #2.
Monte Hall
Rainier Beach HS has had the lowest amount of work and money spent on it for BEX funds,
KL
But that underspend, over decades, for RBHS is not it just being underenrolled. It's pretty glaring. And Ingraham and RBHS were built within just a couple of years of each other.
I have no idea why you said anything about HC.
HP
If every student was allowed to attend the school they chose, under capacity at each high school would be:
Ballard 409
Chief Sealth <401>
Cleveland 42
Franklin <148>
Garfield 184
Ingraham 163
Nathan Hale <9>
Rainier Beach <420>
Roosevelt 145
The Center School <44>
West Seattle <193>
I wish the district would contact students who have left/are trying to leave high schools and ask them why. A simple survey asking them to identify their attendance area school, which school they’d like to attend they’re assigned, and a list of reasons for their preference would not be difficult to create.
Fairmount Parent
Fingers Crossed