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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Add Another One to the No on Charters Column

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Add Another One to the No on Charters Column:

Add Another One to the No on Charters Column

Last night, the 43rd LD Democrats passed a resolution against charter schools. It passed overwhelmingly with just a couple of nays.

The 43rd, the district that Michelle Buetow and I both live in, is the district that Speaker Frank Chopp, Senator Ed Murray and Rep. Jamie Pedersen represent. I'm sure the leadership in the 43rd will let them know about passage of this resolution. I do hope they will take into consideration in these last weeks of the legislative session.

Odds and Ends (Spoiler Alert for a Movie)

A reader asked about the Arbor Heights Elementary charter forum last week. It went well. There were about 35 people there, mostly from Arbor Heights but some from other surrounding schools. The principal, Christy Collins, was there along with several of their teachers. (What was really nice is that some of the PTA leaders from Olympic View, who had also put on their own charter forum a couple of weeks back, came to this forum and stayed for a tour of the building.)

It was well-organized (with little Halloween candy packages for all).

As per Olympic View, I was the fact-checker with Beth Siegal, pro side (and I'm blanking on her district but I