Seattle Schools Community Forum

Public Hearing: Budget (4:30-4:45 PM) Oversight Work Session: Legal (4:45-5:30 PM) Executive Committee of the Whole (5:30-7:00 PM)

The Executive Committee of the Whole will meet tomorrow.  The agenda includes this: Plaintiff is a former student at Nathan Hale High School who alleges that on February 11, 2010, he was weightlifting at school and sustained a significant back injury. He claims that the District failed to properly supervise this activity. This case is currently scheduled for trial in King County Superior Court in late June. The instructor and principal are also current defendants in the lawsuit. Based on all the relevant facts, it is the recommendation of the Acting General Counsel and the outside counsel defending the District that this lawsuit should be settled at this time for $325,000, rath er than allowing this case to proceed to trial. If the Superintendent is authorized to settle this case, a Settlement and Release will be drafted and Plaintiff will release all claims and dismiss the lawsuit against all defendants in exchange for the $325,000 payment.  - also, the Resolution...

Well, that was uncomfortable. More to come but Directors Peters and Patu's resolution to ask that the SBAC not be used for AYP or graduation this year (as well as an "and/or" portion to suspend) failed to even get a second from the committee made up of Blanford, McLaren and Peters. Peters was in disbelief that she couldn't even get a second to get a vote on the motion.  So there was not even a vote to move the motion forward to a discussion to the full Board. Some of the discussion, especially from McLaren,was disturbing in its ignorance and simplistic thinking.