7 apply to be Seattle district's first Creative Approach Schools
Throughout the campaign over this year's charter-school initiative, a number of Seattle's school leaders argued that Seattle didn't need charters to build and nurture innovative teaching. By giving a number of schools new flexibility next fall, they hope to prove it.
Seattle Times education reporter
Throughout the campaign over this year's charter-school initiative, a number of Seattle's education leaders argued that Seattle didn't need charters to build and nurture innovative schools.
Now they hope to prove it.
In the next few weeks, a district-union committee will recommend which Seattle schools should become Creative Approach Schools next fall — schools that, like charters, will have the flexibility to try new ways to raise the achievement of students, especially those from poor families.
Seven schools submitted final applications Friday. They include NOVA, an alternative high school that wants to expand into the middle-school grades, and Hawthorne Elementary, which hopes to become a feeder school for nearby Cleveland High's science, math and technology program.
Cleveland has applied, too, one of several schools that simply want to strengthen and expand programs they started years — or decades —