Seattle Schools Announces a "Partnership" with Africatown Center for Education & Innovation
I am beyond baffled about what is going on with the district, the ACEI, Nova and the Mann Building. I am saying - upfront - that I believe there is much more to this story than we know (there's a backstory there somewhere). I continue in my belief that it will not turn out well. I am also dismayed to see this all happening so fast as I wonder if African-American parents - throughout the entire district - have not been consulted and, as has been pointed out previously, no one group is monolithic so no one group can claim to speak for everyone. As we know there was this hastily thrown-together, unadvertised taskforce around some of the groups that were squatting in the Mann building. Then, I read about the ACEI's plans for the outside of the Mann building and the votes taken on what the district should do. The district's notes from the last taskforce meeting are here (partial):