Franklin and Thurgood Marshall are in "shelter-in-place"
From SPS Twitter at about 2:30 p.m.:Franklin HS and Thurgood Marshall Elementary are in shelter-in-place after shots were fired in nearby neighborhood. SPD looking for suspects.Students were released on time when school ended. For Thurgood students who normally walk home, parents were asked to come and pick them up.
Seattle School Board Meeting re: Later Start Times for Secondary
I do want to note a couple of items before attending to the subject of the thread.Director McLaren was not in attendance at last night's meeting. Also, the student speaker, Mallory Richey of Roosevelt, told the Board and Superintendent that they are working more on school pride and have "Rider Pride" cards that they send home with students to their parents, letting the parents know a goo
Dorn Unveils Bill to Fully Fund K-12 Public Ed
From OSPI:State Superintendent Randy Dorn today released a draft of a bill that would move Washington state toward the full funding of basic education in the event that the Legislature fails to do so by Jan. 1, 2018. Among other things, the bill calls for a one percent increase in sales tax, an increase in state property tax to $3.60 per $1,000 of assessed value and a decrease in local levy author
1-8-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools with Possible Bell Time Changes for 2014-2015Readers had been asking about possible changes to bell times previously discussed by Transportation. I could not find a link at the SPS website so I scanned it in. I had to handwrite in "old" and "new" (for start times) as it had not been noted that way on the original.As previously