Seattle Schools Community Forum

I hope to post a photo later in the day of the event at the White House honoring twelve Champions of Change including Carlina Brown of the Rainier Beach High School PTSA.  From her essay at the White House website: Parents must be recognized as experts of their children, and be present at the table when building foundations not after the building is built. We pride ourselves on our broad network of well seeded leaders in our city. Our names are synonymous with our school and our PTSA. Thank you to Rita Green, LaCretiah Claytor, Pam Berry, Valerie Fisher and Taloyna Greene, the executive team of RBHS PTSA Seattle, WA. This kind of representation takes a sisterhood/brotherhood that is strong and unified and we are one when we speak. Traffic heads up for this weekend.  Seahawks game on Saturday night at 7 p.m.   This from the Seattle Times: The southbound I-5 offramp at 85th Street , north of Green Lake, will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday until Aug. 27, ...

Lots of news: - the Rainier Beach PTSA is being honored with one of twelve Champion of Change awards  next Friday at the White House.  From RBHS PTSA: We will travel to Washington, DC and stand together as we accept one of the most significant public honors for this community in some time.  Recipients of this award will enjoy a guided tour of the East Wing, Policy briefing, lunch, Champion of Change event, photo opportunity and story featured on the White House website. Yes, yes and yes!  Congrats to those wonderful leaders at RBHS, Carline Brown, Rita Green and LaCretiah Claytor.  This is how we get it done.  - it looks like Bryant has posted its teacher list at The Source.  Check it for your teachers as well. - from the Columbia Legal Services , the number of homeless students in Washington State has gone up by 19% in 2010-2011.   All but nine counties have a greater than 2% population.  Almost a third are in rural ar...