A Couple of Interesting Items
There is a petition at Change.org, asking Superintendent Banda to end early dismissals at SPS . I have no info as to who started it (it only says F. Jacobs). It has over 200 signatures. It's fairly simple text: To: Jose Banda, Superintendent, Seattle Public Schools Jonathan Knapp, President, Seattle Education Association Phyllis Campano, Vice President, Seattle Education Association Please stop early dismissals at Seattle public schools. Frequent early school dismissals are a terrible hardship on families. Parents under financial stress, working parents, multi-child families, single parents, and many other caregivers have no good childcare and/or transportation options to manage early school dismissals. We urge you to find a family-friendly way to provide teachers with the planning time they need. As well, tomorrow the results of the 2012 Healthy Youth Survey and the federal Youth Risk Behavior survey will be released. I'll be a...