Short and Sweet - What Will Seattle Schools Do with the McCleary Dollars?
The Legislature is Special Session and let's be frank - it's over McCleary (and, to a lesser extent, I-1351 which the Legislature seems to regard as one big headache that voters foisted on them). But, at the end of that Session, I believe there will be more money for public education. I have not seen the analysis but I suspect it will be a good chunk of change. Question is - what will districts do with those McCleary dollars? Will OSPI tell them or will they just be allotted more dollars? I thought about writing an extended piece on this issue and then thought, "Why?" Because it should be pretty simple - put the money back into our schools. I'll try to be fair here. Some of the money that is being spent at JSIS is for alignment, programs to support tracking how schools are doing and creating systems that work with schools and together across departments. None of that will happen overnight and it's probably not cheap. But as one comme...