Seattle Schools Community Forum

There are no real or urgent capacity issues in the southeast part of the city. Consequently, a lot of the people there are puzzled by the changes proposed for that part of town and Director Patu is reported to be preparing an amendment to the Growth Boundary plan that will call for the deletion of any changes for the Southeast. What is going on in the Southeast - and, more to the point, why?

 From SPS Communications regarding the Strategic Plan, SE Region and Hiring/Spending Freeze: Strategic Plan Seattle Public Schools will host five community meetings to share information and ask for public comments about updating the District’s current Strategic Plan, Excellence for All.  The updated plan will guide academic and operational priorities for the next three to five years and include ongoing benchmarking to measure the District’s performance. The community meetings will be held: · Monday, April 1, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Eckstein Middle School auditorium, 3003 N.E. 75th St. (Interpreters available in Spanish, Somali, Vietnamese, Amharic and Tigrigna) · Tuesday, April 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Chief Sealth International High School auditorium, 2600 S.W. Thistle (Interpreters available in Spanish, Somali, Vietnamese, Chinese, Tagalog, Amharic) · Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m.-noon, at Garfield High School commons, 400-23rd Ave.(Interpreters...

Monday, Oct. 3rd Early Enrollment starts.  See SPS website for details. Tuesday, Oct. 4th Intermediate Term Capacity Management community meeting from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at Mercer Middle School, 1600 S. Columbian Way Wednesday, Oct. 5th Operations Committee mtg (meeting of the whole which I believe means the entire Board) from 4-5:30 p.m.  No agenda available yet.  School Board meeting from 6-9 p.m. Sign up to speak starting 8:00 am on Monday, 252-0040 Agenda . This includes the (late) contract for NWEA for MAP testing.  There is a torturously long explanation of why this is such a great thing which leads me to believe staff thinks there will be pushback from the public testimony.  One thing I didn't know - all students new to the district have to take the fall MAP.   Also, Mark Teoh told the C&I committee that the cost was going up by $20k but here it appears that it is $30k.  It also says this: Due to staff reductions, unfortunatel...