Seattle Schools Community Forum

So the SCPTSA may want the Board to vote first for the Intermediate Plan and then vote down the Growth Boundaries but that may not work.  (It's possible if they adjusted the Intermediate Plan.) Here's the thing:  It feels like the Board and the staff could have cut up the Growth Boundaries plan, section by section, thrown the pieces in the air and picked 10 off the ground.  I honestly worry that somewhere in there is something that many will have overlooked and/or will not like.  I want to have faith but when the SCPTSA says the process wasn't good, it wasn't good.  When Kellie, Meg and others who really see the weeds AND the big picture and are worried, it isn't good.  When a program gets moved around before its review is finished, it's not good (that would be AL). When a school gets changed from a neighborhood school to an Option school without a single meeting of the school community, it's not good (that would be Dearborn Park). When parents cannot u...

This just came across my desk and, at this point, I agree.  The agenda is a mess (not to mention the Growth Boundaries plan.  There's now even some mystery motion to change the agenda (with no explanation of what).

Update:  I just went in to correct the link to the new document (see paragraph below) and found that the Board Agenda looks like a crazy quilt.   I'm not sure what I have seen or not seen.  I would say - with no hesitation - that at the end of the voting on the Growth Plan and the Intermediate Capacity Management Plan that will not be one single person in the room who could really tell you what will happen.  I'm sure that there are staff and parents who know certain parts well but the whole thing?  It will unfold as it will.  The district has just unleashed (and yes, that's the word I'm using) a new document    for pathways for the North/NE. I'm trying desperately to keep up so did I miss this?  Two days before the Growth Boundaries and Intermediate Capacity Plan is NOT the time to hand this out.  Who can really digest what this means? They say this on the last page about "program placement": Board Policy F21.00 deleg...

Here's the link .  Have not read through thoroughly but seems quite complicated.  I am not sure of all the implications. I wrote to the Board that this was not up in a timely fashion per their own policy (which states agenda items will be available three working days before the meeting).  That is not the case here. Update: I don't know about you but I'm still trying to wrap my head around the new growth boundaries (and now the Intermediate Transition Plan).   My suggestion is to work regionally on issues of concern and, if you can find someone who knows how to do, create a schematic that shows the hot spots. Again, you cannot give public testimony or comment at the Work Session on Thursday but you could try to get some of your top questions to your region's director and see if he/she asks this at the Work Session.  You could also urge them to ask staff to make the presentation as BRIEF as possible so that directors have plenty of time for Q&...

Monday, Oct. 14th As previously noted, 8 am today is the sign-up time for the Speakers list for the School Board meeting on Wednesday.  They are likely to take 25 speakers as I'm sure many parents will be calling in to get onto the list. Curriculum & Instruction Committee meeting , 4-6 p.m.  Agenda .  This agenda has been drastically clipped since it was last viewed.   Gone is discussion of AP Computer Science and Policy 3130 (Student Assignment).  What is left is the Annual Approval of Schools, Math Adoption Progress Report, and Policy 2255, Alternative Learning Experience Schools OR Programs.  Hmm. Tuesday, Oct. 15 Candidate forum at Center House at Seattle Center, put on by City Club.  Doors open at 5 p.m. and the Mayoral and School Board candidates are to be there.   Wednesday, Oct. 16th School Board meeting at 4:15 p.m.  Agenda   (partially noted below) revised policy 2015 - Selection/Adoption of Instru...