Sunday, April 13, 2014

4-13-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

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Seattle Schools This Week
Basically, it's Spring Break week so no meetings.Saturday, April 19thDirector Blanford finally has a community meeting.  It's from 10-11am at the Douglass-Truth library.I attended both Director Carr and Director Martin-Morris' community meetings yesterday.Director Carr had about eight parents in attendance (and one little girl who was reading her book and laughed out loud a couple of times - good

Seattle Times editorial on Initiative 1351
The Seattle Times wrote an editorial to discourage people from signing petitions to put Initiative 1351, Class Size Reduction, on the ballot. The editorial was, of course, full of lies, misrepresentations, and unprincipled statements.I don't know where other people stand on initiatives. Lots of states don't have an initiative process. They are certainly open to abuse. We have seen Costco use the i
4-12-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumFriday Open ThreadDid your senior write a great college essay?  Here's a link to an award for $5,000 through Medium.com.  The deadline is May 19.  (Great judges like Anna Quindlen, Wally Lamb, and Mary Roach.) This is not "new" news but the Gates Foundation invests in a private prison company as well as a company with 19 juve