SPS Budget Survey
Update: here's a link to Bellevue's survey and supporting material . Very interesting and detailed. Their PowerPoint presentation shows WA state as 38th in spending in the U.S while Seattle always uses the 46th in the nation number. The PowerPoint has some great charts where Seattle's central spending really comes across. Yet another fascinating yet odd survey , this one on how the district spends the dough. It's live until December 3rd. Shall we go through it together? First page are questions that are informational. Second page (and here's where you have to put on your thinking cap): ranking areas, from 1-5, that you feel are necessary to maintaining an efficiently run school district that consistently improves learning. (BUT, you can only use your 1-5 once each question.) Your choices are: student/teacher ratio books and instructional materials that are aligned to state grad req and college entrance standards wide range of program offering...