Peters Expands Her Lead
Latest results from KC Elections:Peters - 51.78% 46,949Dale Estey 47.90% 43,430Peters is now up by over 3500 votes. About 27.50% of the ballots have been counted.
Live Blogging from Board Meeting
Always tough on my iPad but here goes. Room is filling up. I see people from Wedgwood, likely Mann building supporters, and Kimball Elementary (about walk zones and feeder boundaries to middle school).People are smiling but I wonder how long that will last.Sorry, too hard to keep up and think about what is being said. I will try to get something up tonight after I leave the meeting.
Do Feeder Patterns Make Gerrymandered Boundaries (the Crazy-Quilt Effect)?
Discuss among yourselves if this basic change might make the entire Enrollment plan better (Libros says her life would be easier) or should just be used for high school.
KUOW Vets the Charter Applicants - Not Quite the Quality 1240 Promised
I guess hope springs eternal for some charter school operators. Or they don't think anyone will check their backgrounds (and to those I say, welcome to Washington State). Over at KUOW, they DID check.But a KUOW analysis found that the six established out-of-state charter organizations that hope to open schools here are failing to consistently meet state standards where they operate. Pioneer You
The Showdown Tonight
Between the Growth Boundaries Intro and the Mann building, it stands to be quite a night for a School Board meeting. There are 63 people signed up to speak (they will also 25). The majority are about the Mann building and I expect some pretty fiery rhetoric. (I plan to try to split my time - 1 minute whole minute on boundaries and one whole minute on Mann. I note that Charlie is also speaking and
Peters and Blanford Ahead; Patu Retains Seat
From King County Elections:District IV:Sue Peters: 51.46% - 39,177 votesSuzanne Dale Estey - 48.18% - 36,676 Write-in - 0.36% - 273 votesDistrict V:Stephan Blanford - 87.60% - 64,540 votesLaCrese Green - 11.93% - 8788 votesWrite-in - 0.47% - 344 votes District VII:Betty Patu: 98.49% - 586,889Write-in - 1.51% - 871 votesI just left a very happy Sue Peters election party. Directors Smith-Blum, McL
11-5-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadFrom Publicola:Ballot returns for tomorrow's off-year mayoral election are coming in lower than expected, according to King County Elections spokeswoman Kim van Eckstrom, who estimates that "about 250,000 ballots have been returned" as of this morning (that's about 40,000 more than you'll currently see on King County's official election