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Seattle Schools Community Forum: School Board Meeting Agenda Sept 5, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: School Board Meeting Agenda Sept 5, 2012:


School Board Meeting Agenda Sept 5, 2012

The agenda for the September 5, 2012 regular legislative school board meeting is now available online.

Let's review it!

The meeting is scheduled to start at 4:15pm. The public testimony comes at 5:00.

The Board knows, and has been told, that it is difficult for working people to reach the Board meetings by 5:00 on Wednesdays. They have no intention, however, of changing the time for public testimony. It is difficult not to see this as an effort to discourage participation by working people. Public testimony is the Board's primary community engagement and they have diminished it by reducing it from two sessions at every meeting to one,