Charter News from Around the Country
In breaking news from Politics Early and Often (in Illinois), the SEC has charged United Neighborhood Organization and its charter network with defrauding investors to the tune of $37.5M b "making materially misleading statements" about contracts. UNO leaders want to settle the case by "promising" to not use nepotism in their contracts and having federal oversight for a year.
Mining Student Data
Stories from KUOW and Politico (highly recommended) and information I learned about what's in a TFA contract today about student data. One is the KUOW piece about ConnectEDU and SPS. It fleshed out what I had reported and had a couple of interesting comments. Again:For the past three years, the school district has uploaded middle and high school students’ names, grades, addresses and demograp
6-1-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools This Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools This Week: Seattle Schools This WeekWednesday, June 2ndSchool Board meeting, starting at 4:15 pm. Agenda.It is quite a long agenda with a longer-than-usual Consent agenda. I was surprised to see a item like this not being discussed with Intro and then Action but they need to get work done on the North Queen Anne Elementary School as soon as possib