SPS This and That

Shots were fired yesterday from a moving car in West Seattle and some hit Roxhill Elementary School where the school went into lockdown. This via the West Seattle Blog a statement from SPS:

Students and staff at the SPS Roxhill building (9430 30th Ave SW) went into a lockdown today after shots were fired from a car into the campus. The campus quickly moved to a lockdown. All staff and teachers are safe. The campus was not the intended target of the incident. During a lockdown, classroom and exterior doors are locked. Students remain indoors and in their classroom until the lockdown has been lifted. The Seattle Police Department (SPD) was quick to respond and is currently investigating this incident. No students or staff were harmed, and the lockdown was lifted after SPD indicated it was safe to do so. 

We asked SPS about damage at the school: “There is damage near the cafeteria/the SW Roxbury St & 30th Ave SW side of campus.”

Again, this is the FORMER Roxhill building at 30th/Roxbury, not the current one at 34th/Holden. 

I also note that WSB makes its own list of school tours/open houses and says this:

Last week’s weather led to cancellations/postponements of some of the Seattle Public Schools open houses and tours that were on the list we published recently, after hearing SPS hadn’t kept its own list this year. But now there are new dates, so we’ve made a new list of everything we know of that’s now yet to come.

So SPS can't be bothered to tell schools to send in tour info so that there is a master list for parents to consult? Maybe that's off-putting to new parents who really could use the help from the district with this info.

 

It's Election Day and boy, it looks like a dismal turnout. Amazing how these off-year elections can depend on every single vote.  From the Capitol Hill Blog:

Tuesday’s Special Election is set to be decided by a relatively tiny subset of voters making key decisions on the future of social housing and school funding in the city.

King County Elections reports Seattle turnout has climbed just over 15% for the February ballot due Tuesday night by 8 PM.

The tally is typical for winter special election votes but a massive drop from November’s strong turnout above 85% for the presidential election.

Voters will consider each levy replacement proposal separately with yes/no votes on each.

While the city’s voters have typically enthusiastically backed school spending in past votes, the new ballot arrives fresh after a tense reversal by the district on a school closure plan that has bolstered criticism of the state’s largest school system.

 

Still waiting for documentation on the one-year contract extension for Superintendent Brent Jones. I hope this BAR explains why they decided to do this so soon after they gave him his first extension and raise. Will he get another raise? Stay tuned.