Education Items of Note
Stories on Common Core polling, charter schools, all-day schools, spending on high poverty schools and and an ACLU lawsuit over uneven school experiences for low-income students. Different day, different polling results on Common Core. Rasmussen Reports is saying that a new national telephone poll says that just 34% of American parents (with elementary/secondary students) favor Common Core. That
UpdatesMarch and Rally to Gates Foundation To note: there is the march and rally to protest the ed reform work of the Gates Foundation today, starting at 5 pm at Westlake Park. The march will then go to the Gates Foundation on Mercer at 5th. There will be speeches and some kind of flash mob dance. The police are warning of possible traffic issues. From Diane Ravitch: Speakers: Anthony Cody (prolific
6-25-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Supreme Court Upholds Cell Phone PrivacyThis ruling may be a subject you might want to talk to your kids - especially teens - about at some point.In a 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court today ruled that police must have a warrant to search the cellphones of people they arrest. From the NY Times:The old rules, Chief Justice Roberts said, cannot be applied to “modern cel