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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Aunty Broad Says “NO” on the Levy | Seattle Education 2010

Aunty Broad Says “NO” on the Levy | Seattle Education 2010

Aunty Broad Says “NO” on the Levy

And what do I think?

I have seen a lot of money be wasted over the last two years. First by closing schools, which was an expensive process in itself, $578,000 to be exact, just to open them again for a lot more money. The supe figured that there would be a savings of $5M to close these schools and programs which caused a re-shuffling of students throughout the district. This is a process that is difficult, time consuming and disruptive for students, teachers, staff and families. Then, just to have the supe decide within a few months that five school buildings needed to be re-opened to the tune of $47.8M.

Our Chief Financial Officer never provided the numbers last year that were requested by the school board