Seattle Schools Community Forum: Charter Schools - As the World Turns

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Charter Schools - As the World Turns:

Charter Schools - As the World Turns

You could call it a soap opera or use another, more colorful, word (but this is - mostly - a family blog.)

Updates

Mary Walker School District.  Rolling in the dough and that would be Gates Foundation dough.  So now we're at over $2M for the last couple of years.  That's buying them four consultants to help manage the work of the six schools that are going to use ALEs to limp thru the rest of this school year. 

Summit - the outlier

I had it wrong in saying that Summit would have to go thru Cascadia for students who live in Seattle to homeschool. First, it would have been Cascade, not Cascadia.  BUT, as I learned at the Executive Committee meeting yesterday, those students don't have to go thru any real education entity.  Their parents just have to submit a form.  (More on this further down.)

Washington Policy Center.  The Gates Foundation is not the only big spender; the WPC announced today that they have a couple of commercials for charter schools that will run 700(!) times in the next two weeks.  Where they got the money for that kind of media spending is a mystery but I'll give you three guesses.

OSPI - I received an e-mail from OSPI on Wednesday, answering some questions I had asked about this situation.  From one answer, it would appear they didn't know Summit was going a different direction. 

Frankly, I don't believe there is one single person in the entire state who truly knows the entire story for all the former charter schools.   No one.

Seattle Schools
The district sent out two different emails on the subject of charter schools.  (link at the end of this thread via Seattle Education 2010).  All bold is mine.

The first was dated December 8, 2015 and it was from Ken Gotsch, CFO, to JoLynn Berge, CFO, at OSPI.  The subject line was "choice forms for Seattle Schools Community Forum: Charter Schools - As the World Turns: