Seattle Schools To Hold Community Meeting on Special Education
From SPS Communications:When: Tuesday, July 22, 2014Time: 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.Where: Seattle Public John Stanford Center Auditorium, 2445 3rd Avenue South What: A family meeting hosted by Seattle Public Schools and the TIERS Group (Teams Intervening Early to Reach all Students) to hear about the results of an evaluation of special education services, recommendations and the revised comprehensi
Seattle Schools Superintendent Update
Dear Seattle Public Schools community, I am writing to update you on the Superintendent process. As you are aware, Superintendent Jose Banda is the finalist for Superintendent at Sacramento City Unified School District. The Sacramento Board of Education plans to vote on his contract the evening of July 17. If approved, the Seattle School Board will hold a special meeting within the next few week
U.S. School Districts and Funding
From the Center for American Progress, a fascinating (and sobering) look at districts across the country. The name of the study is Parallel Lives, Different Outcomes: A Twin Study of Academic Productivity in U.S. School Districts. (It's not light summer reading, to be sure.)For this report, “twin districts” have very similar sizes and they have the following in common:The proportion of students w
Friday Open Thread
There's a teenaged-boy with autism missing in our are. Please take a look at this photo in case you see him.In one big difference between Seattle and Spokane school districts (in addition to Spokane being a charter authorizer), apparently they don't feel the need to expand at the administrative level nor give raises. From The Spokesman-Review:As Redinger (Spokane's superintendent) said in Friday’
7-10-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools and the Search for a SuperintendentA week from today, the Sacramento School Board (they call their members "trustees") will vote on Jose Banda as their new superintendent. (I am waiting to hear back from their Communications person on details.)I suspect they will vote to offer Banda the contract and that he will accept. I'm also fairly c