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Monday, February 13, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: ACLU Offers Help for Students and Teachers

Seattle Schools Community Forum: ACLU Offers Help for Students and Teachers:

ACLU Offers Help for Students and Teachers

Parents of middle school and high school students should be aware of the resources offered by the ACLU-Washington to help protect youth.

They have a great downloadable guide, "Student Rights and Responsibilities in the Digital Age; A Guide for Public School Students in Washington State" with info on:

  • technology and free speech including using the internet at school and off-campus
  • recording people at school including other people's privacy and school surveillance cameras

Kindergarten Rates Going Up

I know this was posted by readers in other threads but to be official; SPS has announced higher rates for full-day kindergarten. The rate going up from $2,370 to $2720 next school year. There are 19 state fully-funded Ks in SPS that are fee-free. There are 26 schools where F/RL students are eligible for fully-funded full-day kindergarten. (There is overlap between the schools where all students get free kindergarten and those that allow F/RL students to waive the full-day kindergarten fee.)

From SPS:


The Kindergarten fee is only waived for: