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Via our friends at the HCC blog ; Updated GHS page on Honors for All

Here's a link to the Advanced Learning Survey that was taken earlier this year.  I would like to hear comments and feedback.  Thanks.

This is a fairly quick survey and it was interesting to see what they are pushing this year.    It closes on September 18th.  The topics are: early childhood learning school zone signs opportunity gap charters juvenile justice highly capable What is nice is that you do get to see how the survey is going at the end.  When I took it, there were some interesting results as far as charters.  About 32% of people ranked it very important/important, 33.5% were neutral and 34% said not important/insignificant.  If this survey is right, there's work for either side to win that group in the middle. For highly capable, 68% said it was very important/important.  Naturally, this is a small survey of a select group of people so not really valid results.

This is what I have been working towards - a simple parent/community survey about the effectiveness of Dr. Goodloe-Johnson as SPS superintendent. It was created by CPPS (Community & Parents for Public Schools). PLEASE take this survey - it's 6 questions. I would have liked the questions tweaked somewhat differently but the last one is pretty much an up/down vote of her effectiveness (with a range to answer within). Naturally, you can only take the survey once. (They only ask for your zip code to get an idea of who is taking the survey.) PLEASE let your PTA (or parent group) know about this survey. I believe the Seattle Council PTSA may be alerting PTSA leaders about it but ask for it to be in your weekly newsletter or put on your PTSA website. Clearly, I vote no confidence in the direction/effectiveness of our Superintendent. But if you feel differently, vote that way. Either way, I know that the Board wants to hear from parents/community. I think we are reaching a tu...