District Can't Quit the Alliance That Fast
As I reported, the district and the Alliance for Education each put out a letter, outlining the dissolution of their 20-year partnership. As I also said, there is something bittersweet to this as the Alliance started with the blessing of the late Superintendent John Stanford. Here they are in one place at Scribed . I was around then and I always did think of the Alliance as its own separate self but it was very much put forth as being a fundraising (to help meet challenges and gaps and provide enrichment) group as well as a civic cheerleading group for the district. I remember the early years of pre-first-day-of-school pep rallies at Mariners field with a huge number of parents, teachers and children. But there was a lot of upheaval and the Alliance morphed much more towards its business side. I believe the Alliance was impatience with the slowness of change and very much wished it could control who sat on the Board and their governance. But these letters! ...