HB 1860 - Bye, bye SPS
Well, it appears that the Seattle Weekly's statement that Reps. Pettigrew and Tomiko Santos wanting to divide up Seattle School district is true. Meet HB 1860 . It opens with this: AN ACT Relating to first-class school director districts for the purposes of dividing large districts and limiting their number of board of director members; adding a new section to chapter 28A.343 RCW; creating a new section; providing an effective date; providing an expiration date; and declaring an emergency. Okay, where's the fire? If I had the time, I'd love to compare SPS to other mid-sized urban districts. I'm not sure it would fall anywhere near the "emergency" label. Then, Effective September 1, 2018, no first-class school director district may comprise more than thirty-five thousand students or have more than five members of its board of directors. Well, that would mean SPS not only would be divided BUT would no longer have seven members of the...