Seattle Schools Community Forum

KPLU's Sound Effects has created a wonderful, vital piece of work in Renaissance Beach, a story about the turnaround of Rainier Beach High School.  It is told thru the eyes of staff and students and is truly compelling.

KPLU's Community Advisory Board is meeting on Monday the 23rd from 2-:30pm at the Westin. Here's a link to their Facebook page; I'm still looking for an e-mail address for the Board.  You could also write to KUOW, programming@KUOW.org. Here's a very good story from Crosscut on this situation.  Apparently, a lot of this deciding happened behind closed doors even though it's public radio. I've worked with a lot of reporters over the years and can tell who cares, who follows up and who gets into the weeds.  These two guys are good solid reporters. Let's save KPLU's great reporters like Gabriel Spitzer and Kyle Stokes.  

Tomorrow is Director Carr's last community meeting as a board member - it's at the Hearthstone at Greenlake from 8:30-10:00 am. A couple of strong women speaking out - Reece Witherspoon honored as Glamor's 2015 Women of the Year Awards and Meryl Streep getting turned down for King Kong.  Witherspoon's speech is a good one to read to your daughters.  Witherspoon See, I just kind of started wondering lately why female ambition is a trait that people are so afraid of. Why do people have prejudiced opinions about women who accomplish things? Why is that perceived as a negative? In a study by Georgetown University in 2005, a group of professors asked candidates to evaluate male efficient versus female efficient in politicians. Respondents were less likely to vote for power-seeking women than power-seeking men. They also perceived ambitious women as looking out for themselves. They even reported ambitious women as provoking feelings of disgust.  I am...

With just about 24 hours until the vote on bell times, here comes more info. First, the district has released a Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the change. As well, KPLU's Kyle Stokes is tweeting this: FYI @ seapubschools updated the new bell times proposal — everything time-shifted 5 minutes. My updated spreadsheet: http:// bit.ly/1k8RNZ5 I’m checking with @ seapubschools whether bell times shift really will override current 7-hour day at @ RainierBeachHS http:// bit.ly/1k8RNZ5 His spreadsheet is a wonder.