Seattle School Board Meeting, Part Two
Summary : About the Gates Foundation grant for a preschool at Bailey-Gatzert. Several on the Board want a more careful explanation about who is in charge of what (like curriculum, alignment, costs) while a few on the Board want to grab this opportunity. There seems to be confusion over what early learning is in SPS. The Board will not be voting on this grant until November 19th, well after the election vote on the preschool props, 1A and 1B. About the downtown school . Some on the Board pressed for costs around finding room at other schools and the actual numbers for space for students in Central/downtown. It is unclear what will actually happen but one thing that I believe is firmly settled is that the Board is not going to vote in to take on more debt to renovate the Federal Reserve building. So unless some generous donor(s) come forward, it seems unlikely that the district will be given the Federal Reserve building. However, the ...