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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: What is the Alliance for Education?

Seattle Schools Community Forum: What is the Alliance for Education?:


What is the Alliance for Education?

I'm confounded by the Alliance for Education. I don't know what it is anymore.

At one time the Alliance was all about fundraising for Seattle Public Schools. It raised money for the District through it's own events and promotional activities and it acted as fiscal agent for school-related causes. That's it. No politics, no policy, just raised money for the District.



Now it has morphed into something else. It has become a subsidiary of the Chamber of Commerce, it advocates