Is the Seattle School Board dysfunctional? U.S. Chamber of Commerce thinks so
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According to a report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Seattle School Board suffers from churn and conflict, a poor relationship with the superintendent and what one unnamed observer called "micromanagement on steroids." Officials here dispute the findings.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is using problems in Seattle's public-school system as evidence that businesses across the country need to get more involved in school-board elections, but officials here say the national group got its facts wrong.
The three-page "case study" of Seattle Public Schools, released last week, is among the harshest of 13 such reports conducted by the chamber and the Institute for a Competitive Workforce, both conservative business groups.
According to the report, the Seattle School Board