Seattle School Updates
I neglected to mention Director Patu has a Community Meeting from 10 am to noon today at Cafe Vita. I read thru the g eneral letter from SPS to families about NCLB. As I previously noted, the Washington Policy Center is claiming 33 letters went out about different schools (I need to get confirmation from the district on this) but they also claim there isn't info on tutoring and/or changing schools. Under NCLB, students at "failing" schools are offered free tutoring and/or the ability to change to another non-failing school. The district has always made this option available as their legal obligation. In addition to the notification, SPS Title I schools that did not meet AYP now must offer to move students to school that made AYP or is not in one of the Steps of Improvement required by the law. This is called Public School Choice. The law also includes free tutoring services in reading, language arts and/or math at schools that do not meet AYP. This ...