Seattle School Board Case Study
Thanks to Miramac for this heads up on the report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Chamber Foundation and Institute for a Competitive Workforce about the Seattle School Board.I'm reading it now and so far I have found a couple of errors:
Because there is no campaign contribution limit, they can exercise significant power. (They being WEA and private donors.)
Luckily, this issue got rectified during the last session of the Legislature and the campaign limits are the same as for other candidates.
They also have an error in their graphic which states that the seven Board members represent 5 districts and 2 at-large. Not true.
In the "hmm" department:
Most board members strongly backed Enfield and wanted her to stay in the position. But they were also determined not to end up in another situation where they didn’t know the answers. Several board members
