Odds and Ends
About preschool and SPS, a few items: - Director Blanford has been working with the City on their preschool plan almost since he got elected. (I know this from some public disclosure e-mails.) Trouble is, I went back and looked at his campaign interviews and I can't find one that mentions it. Not even in a very detailed questionaire from the King County Dems where mentions being the director of an early learning center. That seems odd given this statement he made in an e-mail to Councilman Burgess, Sara Morris from the Alliance and Holly Miller at the Office of Education in January 2014 about joining them on the preschool junket Thanks for including me in this opportunity, which I'd like to pursue. As you know, I have some background in Early Learning (as the Executive Director of the White Center Early Learning Initiative) and hope to be a strong and informed advocate for Universal Preschool in my position on the Seattle School Board. ...