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Thursday, March 6, 2014

3-6-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week

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Garfield High Basketball Players/Cheerleaders Abused in Tweets
Garfield High School's basketball team is on its way to start playing at the state finals.  (So is Cleveland's girls basketball team.)  My Northwest is reporting that after the school's third meet-up with Issaquah's basketball team, things took a nasty turn after tweets were sent saying racially disrespectful things about team members and cheerleaders.From the report:Senior Mikayla Brooks has been

Teacher Evaluation Bill in Trouble in Legislature?
That's the chatter from Twitter mostly via Times' reporter, Brian Rosenthal.   Hmmm.Inslee deflecting larger Qs on testing. Says this is all about $: "I don't have the luxury...to opine about situations that do not exist. Hearing from several ppl, including finance chair Reuven Carlyle, that the teacher eval bill is having a very hard time in the state House.Wonder why the eval bill is in tro


Updates on People and Organizations

A couple of readers asked about some people and organizations that they feel have been perhaps too quiet.First is director Sue Peters.  I'm not sure exactly what people were expecting from Sue but I think she is doing exactly what she should do as a new director.   She's behaving like the new director that she is - i.e. learning respectfully from her peers on the Board with more longevity and list
3-5-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Petition Against Cuts in SPS School BudgetsThere is a petition against cuts in school clerical staff - which will primarily affect high schools where, frankly, they can least take it - to send a message to the district. There is a minute-and-a-half video of the issue by Mary Smith who works in the office at Ingraham.  Mary is a long-time SPS school employee and I h