Alliance for Education Continues Drive to Shape the Seattle School Board
The Alliance recently had an press "event" during a national urban school board directors convention held here in Seattle in late July. The theme of the convention was "Building Educational Communities to Close the Achievement Gap" but that was not what this event was about at all. I had hoped this would be a press conference but no, it was really a dog-and-pony show to somehow drive home this point of what Seattle's School Board should be. There was a smattering of press with Directors Peaslee and Smith-Blum in attendance as well. I was confused as to who was in the room until I realized that some attendees from the convention had joined us as well. The speakers on the panel - billed as "experts in the area of school board research and effectiveness" - were: Roger Eskine - on the Alliance's "School Board Task Force" and former Executive Director of the SEA Thomas L. Aisbury - Ed professor at Seattle Pacific University - ce...