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A wrap-up of last night's meeting from the great West Seattle Blog (partial): It appears the district added another meeting because it wasn't there when I first posted the list: Mon., Oct. 5, 2015, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Jane Addams Middle School 11051 34th Avenue Northeast Interpreters provided (subject to change due to availability) Chinese, Spanish Seattle Public Schools ‘ draft proposal for changing bell times didn’t draw much support among the two dozen or so people who showed up at the first of five public meetings about it, held tonight at Chief Sealth International High School .

  Update: know who else has jobs?  Teach for America (on Craigslist, no less).  The first thing they say you get out of TFA?  "Leadership abilities."  They single out Garfield as a problem for African-American students.  Teacher is the only job available in Seattle at the jobs section of the TFA site. When you don't have traction, you don't need a lot of staff, I suppose. I'll be interested to see if the new dean at the UW College of Education keeps up this nonsense of running the TFA program in the red. end of update. I sometimes peruse job listings at SPS and other outlets as you find the most interesting things. To whit: - SPS is looking for at least two " Senior Project Managers ."  On my "back to basics" mission, I find it trying that we can't have nurses/counselors but JSCEE has SO many projects, they need managers for all of them.  What I find doubly trying is the description of what they are to do: This position is re...