Thursday, August 16, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: School Board adopts narrow definition of program

Seattle Schools Community Forum: School Board adopts narrow definition of program:


School Board adopts narrow definition of program

The newly adopted policy 2200 is called the "Equitable Access to Programs and Services" policy. When you - or anyone else - thinks about equitable access to programs and services, what programs and services do you usually think of? Probably the ones with inequitable access now, such as language immersion, Montessori, Spectrum, ALO, alternative, STEM, international, and IB. Those are the ones I think of. This policy doesn't cover any of those because all of them are specifically exempted from the policy.



The policy reads:

"This policy addresses actions to make changes to existing programs or services, the development of new programs or services, the replication of existing programs or services, as well as the closing and/or relocation of existing programs or services throughout the district, to the