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Thursday, February 27, 2014

2-27-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum:







Finding Solutions: Where is the Leadership?
This issue of homes for Cascade and NW Center Kids is  but one of the first capital dominoes to fall.   The new 2014-2015 budget reflects that the growth isn't quite what the district expected.  At this point, that doesn't matter.The district simply does not have the capacity for the students who continue to pour in.  There will be more dominoes and the number and speed at which they fall will onl


Seattle Education - This and That
 From two area PTSAs:We are proud to announce the Seattle Council PTSA Board and Northshore Council PTSA Board, which represents the PTA's in Woodinville, Bothell and Kenmore, have endorsed I-594. Join these parents and teachers to help make our schools and state safer for Washington families by endorsing 594 today: http://bit.ly/1hbXVd6This is the measure for background checks for guns.   So I wa
Making Money from Public Schools (Pictograph)
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2-26-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: On Switching High School/Elementary Start TimesFrom School Start Later-Seattle:As a brief update, the school board approved transportation standards for next year that will move us to a 3-tier system in order to save approximately $3 million.  It was impossible to get the school board to consider putting secondary schools in the later tiers and elementaries in the