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Stevens Elementary Trying to Fight Cuts

From Stevens parents worried about their school.  Understand that if the Board does not act on policies that are broken/bent/ignored, then YOUR school community could be next.  

I can see what the district is doing - clearly, if they got Madrona's enrollment up near building capacity, they are trying to fill schools.  But it is just wrong to then leave other schools twisting in the wind.  (I think staff believes that more people will eventually move near Stevens and it, too, will fill back up but meanwhile they are ridiculously below their capacity.  And, I think the district is triaging schools by student population.  Again, that might be okay except that the policy doesn't state that.) 

We've been asking the District to move the Stevens waitlist to no avail.  The big picture includes:

• Stevens is being targeted for reduction while all the other schools in our area are growing or maintaining their enrollment.  (Comparing building capacity and 2020 projections, Lowell is expected to be at 125% of building capacity while Madrona is at 96% of building capacity and Stevens is at 57% of building capacity.)

• Stevens had 16 classroom teachers 2 years ago (in 2014-15).  Next year it is slated to have 11.  Three years from now (in the fall of 2020) it is expected to have 8 (and that number may be optimistic).  Cutting a school's enrollment and teaching staff in half over six years is a recipe for disaster and the district needs to ACT NOW and MOVE THE STEVENS WAITLIST in order to slow this train wreck.

The Superintendent told our PTA in email that the District is artificially limiting choice assignments to Stevens in order to increase enrollment at surrounding schools.  That violation of Board policy makes zero sense in light of the enrollment projections above.

From PTA letter:

Our message is simple: Save Stevens! Follow Board-approved assignment policy, allow choice assignments where space is available, and MOVE THE STEVENS WAITLIST.  It is NOT FAIR to artificially limit choice assignments to Stevens in order to increase enrollment at Madrona or Lowell given the District’s 3-year enrollment projections for each school: Stevens is projected to be at 57% of capacity in 2020, Madrona at 96% and Lowell at 125% capacity).

*We have been told repeatedly, including by the Superintendent in an email to our PTA, that choice assignments to Stevens are being artificially limited in order to increase enrollment at Madrona and Lowell.  That is a political choice that is completely out of compliance with approved Board policy, which allows choice assignments to schools where space is available.  We had space last year, we have it again NOW!

 

Please take up one or more of these actions, listed in order of importance:

                  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28                      SPS Board Meeting, 4:15 p.m., John Stanford Center
                                                                                          Bring kids and signs, and wear your Stevens t-shirts!
                                                                                          If you are willing to testify, sign up at 8 a.m. Monday morning; directions here:
                                                                                          http://ift.tt/2tUiDsH

IMMEDIATELY                                       Email the Superintendent and School Board to tell them to follow the Student Assignment Plan, admit our waitlist and slow Stevens’ decline:
llnyland@seattleschools.org; scott.pinkham@seattleschools.org; rick.burke@seattleschools.org; Jill.Geary@seattleschools.org
sue.peters@seattleschools.org; stephan.blanford@seattleschools.org
leslie.harris@seattleschools.org; betty.patu@seattleschools.org

SATURDAY, JUNE 24                          SPS Director Stephan Blanford Community Meeting
10 a.m. at Douglass-Truth Library

SATURDAY, JUNE 24                          SPS Director Betty Patu Community Meeting
10 a.m. at Raconteur, 5041 Wilson Ave. S.

 

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