Seattle Schools' Transportation Costs - If We Fund Charter Students, What Will That Mean?
I knew when the charter school initiative was being debated that charter schools were not supposed to get as much money for transportation as real public schools. In fact, one of the main questions in the application was about transport. So now it turns out that in the recently passed Budget bill there was a section to cut down the transportation funding. (This comes to us via the Washington Pol
Seattle Schools Parent-Teacher Conferences - What Works?
From the thread on The Source/Fusion:Also, maybe this is a thread request, and potentially not relevant, but I am thinking about parent teacher conferences and what the expectations should be. What do you learn in P/T conferences, and what would you like to learn? Any hints for making the conference time more effective? Both from the teacher POV and parent POV, what do you want from a parent/teac
The Gap Between Rhetoric and Action
There are a lot of people in Education who say all of the right things, but then, somehow, go ahead and do all of the wrong things. This continues to astound me. We see it all the time from US Secretary of Education, the Governor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Education Reformers, Board Directors, the Superintendent, and the senior staff. No one, however, shows me a bigger gap between
Wilson-Pacific Meeting
Thought I'd open a thread for anyone who attended that meeting to weigh in.As I posted elsewhere, I am baffled by the use of Wilson-Pacific fields for Lincoln High. Why not Woodland Park? Or, near me, they are going to lid the reservoir near Roosevelt High. Why not dedicate one of those fields to Lincoln? I said I think the district is doing the wrong thing on the Genesee Hill Elementary school
3-18-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadA six-year-old calls Hasbro out on its Guess Who game (with 19 men and only 5 women on the game board). They write back with a silly answer and her mom weighs in. A bipartisan bill has been introduced into the House of Representatives to cut down on high-stakes testing. In the on-going debate about discipline, zero-tolerance discipline and how