Seattle School Leadership Changes at South Shore/Graham Hill
South Shore K-8 is losing its award-winning principal, Keisha Scarlett. Their new principal will be Dr. Laurie Morrison who had previously served as assistance principal and was the principal at Graham Hill Elementary. Ms. Scarlett is going to be the district's "principal leadership coach." What is odd is that a survey was sent home Thursday night to parents about input on the principal. It had also been available on the SS website but it's unclear for how long. It seems odd to do that unless you didn't have any community input on the selection of a new principal. (To note, the district's previous agreement with the New School Foundation that help to fund South Shore included a notation that New School had a say in the principal. I wonder if the agreement with LEV has the same notation.) There is also an article in the Rainier Valley Post on Graham Hill parents who are very unhappy with leadership changes at their school that see their ent...