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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Guest Column: Creative Approach Schools

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Guest Column: Creative Approach Schools:

Guest Column: Creative Approach Schools

Michelle Buetow has written a thoughtful piece about the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the district and SEA for schools to apply to be Creative Approach Schools. This action will be introduced at Wednesday's Board meeting. Here's the MOU and the Creative Approach Schools criteria page. Good for our district and our labor partners for making this effort to allow more innovation/flexibility/autonomy to schools.

Here's Michelle's article:
Washington state legislature last week held hearings on the fourth attempt to bring charter schools to our state. As expected, the proposed legislation is proving sharply divisive within the K12 education community.

I am wary of any proposal that further fractures a state population of legislators and voters who have yet to join