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From Chief Sealth Int'l High School : Many people have asked if there was a way to help support the family of Christy Phu, the Sealth student who was killed last week. Here is the link to the fund if you would like to contribute. There was a fire early this morning at 15th Ave NE and NE 65th (right by Roosevelt High .)  This is right by my house so I was aware this was going on.  SPS is saying that Roosevelt will start on time. ( Update: the Times is reporting that 15th Ave NE/NE65th will be closed in all directions for several hours.  I know this is an early release day for the holidays so take note of this if you are coming in this direction. Metro routes are being detoured around the fire.  And yes, it was one of the Sisley slums.  Of course.) Governor Inslee's supplemental budget proposal reflects raising the salary for starting teachers to $40,000 per year.  From The Capitol Record : That increase is in addition to the 4.8% cost-of-liv...

 I will be writing a thread about what I learned at the Work Session on data privacy yesterday.  Some is good, some not-so-good (with Director Carr asking the best questions).  But I can say that SPS has NOT done enough.  From Education Week : As part of a potentially explosive lawsuit making its way through federal court, giant online-services provider Google has acknowledged scanning the contents of millions of email messages sent and received by student users of the company’s Apps for Education tool suite for schools.  In the suit, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company also faces accusations from plaintiffs that it went further, crossing a “creepy line” by using information gleaned from the scans to build “surreptitious” profiles of Apps for Education users that could be used for such purposes as targeted advertising.  Gmail is a key feature of Google Apps for Education, which has 30 million users worldwide and is provided by the c...

The White House announced that it has received about $118M in commitments from private companies to support public education.   From the AP story: