Seattle Schools' Facilities Planning
Charlie and I have always enjoyed a good laugh over the district's "Facilities Master Plan" because we both could never understand how a list of buildings with descriptions and policies around them is a "plan." It will be interesting to see if the newest one is any better. I attended both Work Sessions yesterday on facilities and it pretty much turned out how I thought. Staff's presentation for the first work session was overly long - a lot of flowery talk about the mission and values of facilities which is fine but you don't need five minutes about it - and sure enough, they had to rush at the end of the first Session. Directors seemed to have more questions to ask but they had to plow on. I'll have a write-up of my notes soon. There were several handouts including this one that I thought parents might want to see. It's the newest Facilities Master Plan Replacement or Major Modernization Priority list. It has many categories of facil...