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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

7-16-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum:









Homeless Students? How best to help them

This fall we see the opening of First Place School as a charter school serving mobile, high-risk students (mostly homeless).  The Times had a story about how homeless students are served in schools in Washington state with an interesting question to it.The Times reports that there are about 30,000 homeless kids in our state today (and that number has steadily risen over the last decade). School ca


7-15-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Who Was Using What Math (and how did Principals feel about the Math Adoption)?I'm not sure this information will answer all questions, but I did put in a public disclosure request from SPS on the issue of what schools had been using enVision.  Here's the feedback I received on June 23rd.  (It is not complete as they are still trying to see if there were any MOU/agr