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Thursday, September 18, 2014

9-18-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum:







Operations/Executive Committee of the Whole
Update:  the Discipline Appeals Council has been set with a couple of issues.One big one is that they did not get any volunteers to represent Sped.  It was stated they asked internally but it was unclear to me if any Sped parent organizations were contacted.  They would like a Sped teacher.  Peaslee wants SPed in there.  Peters said SPed is important because of disproportionality and Sped issues i

Seattle Schools having issues with websites
I see this at 2:51 pm but I don't know how long this has been going on.  I'll let you know if anything changes.  You can see the homepage for SPS but I assume they mean school websites.

Student Data Privacy: Where's Your Line?
From Marketplace:Meet the most measured, monitored and data-mined students in the history of education.  Your children.How about this district in California, tracking every kid who uses social media.  From Tech Dirt:The Glendale School District in California is facing some backlash from the recent news that it has retained the services of Geo Listening to track its students' social media activity.




9-17-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: It's Constitution DayConstitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by thirty-nine brave men on September 17, 1787, recognizing all who, are born in the U.S. or by naturalization, have become citizens.Our Constitution still stands as our country's guide.   I don't think that it's some kind of "in stone" document.  I belie