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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Through the Backdoor: Creative Approach Schools to be voted on Tomorrow

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Through the Backdoor: Creative Approach Schools to be voted on Tomorrow:

Through the Backdoor: Creative Approach Schools to be voted on Tomorrow

Guess I'm confused because I thought it was Valentine's Day and not April Fool's Day.

My confusion is the sudden appearance of the Creative Approach MOU back on the agenda for tomorrow night's School Board meeting. This is action to vote on it. It has NOT been amended in any way. Director Peaslee is wisely offering an amendment to it to make sure there is Board (publicly elected) oversight.

The SEA refused to take it back to its membership. (I'm thinking it has something to do with Jonathan Knapp wanting to be SEA president and worried he would lose face if the MOU had to be reviewed by membership. There's some real courage of convictions for you.)

Here's the crux of the issue. I like this idea of school communities working with teachers and the district to find