Seattle Schools Odds and Ends - Meetings
I went to the Board meeting two weeks ago and a couple of Work Sessions/Committee meetings. This thread is the Board meeting and Operations Ctm. meeting. Here are the highlights: Board Meeting This was the one where the high school basketball teams were honored. Very fun to be there (although the Garfield boys wanted to look as serious as possible). Paul Apostle of HR said they were making "exceptional" progress to hire early in hard-to -fill posts like Sped and ELL. There was a bit of mention for Genesee Hill which is now running about $2M behind. As Chris Jackins pointed out, just looking at the site, you can see potential problems. I'm not sure why this wasn't apparent sooner. The later start for secondary schools had about 3800 signatures by then. One lone NW Center father spoke about the issue of where their program will end up. He did say they didn't want to stay but that the district should "own" what they did in...