Seattle School Board Work Session Today
The Work Session today is going to be wide-ranging and vital to the work of the district (well, part of it). The first part - the useless part - is about whether the district should become a charter school authorizer. This should be the quickest part of the entire Work Session because the Board should say NO. There is NO good reason and many reasons why not. See my letter to the Board below. The second part is around the Strategic Plan. Here's the huge presentation . Here's what staff says they heard at the Jan. 14, 2015 Work Session on this topic: Fix the infrastructure before building improvements – System has been broken for a long time – The Superintendent can propose course corrections to the strategic plan Identify highest value work – “Think Big... Get it right ” – We need to explicitly prioritize and sequence work – We need to identify what will be pushed out to later dates or stopped – Directors need to be able to clearly justify why we may...