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Monday, November 25, 2013

11-25-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum

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Locally (and thanks to reader Carolyn), news from Real Change newspaper about getting food to needy students for the weekends.  While the kids of John Hay Elementary School play outside, LaRock carries bags of food into classrooms and surreptitiously slips them into the backpacks of 15 kids at the 500-student school on Queen Anne Hill. Each bag contains cans of soup, crackers, tuna, granola bars a
11-24-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: I-1240 LitigationI attended the first hearing on the constitutionality of I-1240, the Washington State Charter School law.To be clear, this hearing was pretty meaningless. No matter who wins or loses, this case will appealed all the way to the State Supreme Court. None of the decisions in any of the lower courts will matter. Only the one decision from the State Sup