Seattle Schools Community Forum: Alliance for Education Annual Report

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Alliance for Education Annual Report:

Alliance for Education Annual Report

by Charlie Mas

The Alliance for Education has released their annual report for 2012.

Let's have a look.

First the Alliance notes that graduation rates are way up and that Seattle schools outscored the state averages. Then they say that the same 74% 4-year graduation rate they just crowed about is no good at all, that a (not entirely coincidental) 74% of third graders read at grade level, and that only 67% of seventh graders passed the math MSP. I wonder why they didn't choose to report the 64% of eighth graders instead. They also note that "Unconscionable achievement gaps between student groups persist."

On the next slide the Alliance describes itself as a "critical friend" to the district and lists their achievements for the year.

They enrolled 92% of eligible 8th graders into the Washington State College Bound scholarship program.

I had no idea that it was the Alliance that did that. That only leaves 8% of them to be enrolled by everyone else.

They also take credit for handling other people's money. They don't say that they did a very good job of it, but I