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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: One More Piece to the PTA Fundraising Discussion

Seattle Schools Community Forum: One More Piece to the PTA Fundraising Discussion:

One More Piece to the PTA Fundraising Discussion

Brian Rosenthal had one more small article on this subject and it, again, is about McGilvra.

In 2000, SPS and McGilvra had a contract to allow McGilvra a way to hold the line on their class sizes. To whit:


The oddity started in 2000, when parents at the small and then-low-performing school in Madison Park negotiated a unique contract: The PTA would buy two portable classrooms for about $120,000 and pay $200,000 per year to put teachers in them. In return, the district would keep the school's class sizes low or provide extra programs for the next 20 years.

It was an agreement unlike anything District Attorney Ron English had ever seen, he said.
And it worked for a decade.

But last year, amid implementation of a neighborhood-based assignment plan, overcrowding at