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Friday Open Thread
The next meeting about the reopening of Lincoln High School is scheduled for Monday, November 13th, location TBD.Saturday director community meetings:
Pinkham - Northgate Library from 3:30-5:00 pm
Harris - Delridge Branch Library from 3:00-5:00 pm
Free cardiac screenings are coming to Ballard High School on November 1st from 9 am to 3 pm for students between 14-24 years old, regardless of where they attend school, from the Nick of Time Foundation.
The goals of the NoTF ECG Youth Heart Screenings:
- To detect hidden heart conditions with the potential for sudden death in the young.
- To reduce sudden cardiac death through early detection and appropriate medical interventions, activity modification.
- To raise awareness and educate schools and communities about sudden cardiac arrest, warning symptoms, and the value of heart screening.
- Integrated screening programs utilizing ECG offer the only model proven to reliably identify children at risk for SCD
The Times has a hand-wringing editorial about Betsy DeVos and what the protestors who went to her Bellevue event should be doing. What if those protestors just took the time to write to legislators or call or even go down to Olympia to advocate for our schools?
This self-serving narrative doesn't bother to acknowledge the many educators and parents that are working hard to communicate their views to the Legislature. It does not bother to acknowledge the work - no less existence of Washington's Paramount Duty - which has, in a very short period of time, made their group a force to be reckoned with. Most of all, the writer chose to use quotes from one protester and one person in the dinner but both on the side of choice. (It is unclear to me from the editorial if the protester was from the right or the left.)
Someone else not for DeVos? The Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia, Ralph Northam. Interestingly, former President Obama just gave a speech in favor of his election.
One subject the pair likely won’t discuss, however, is their differences on K-12 education, the issue one recent poll found is most important to voters in the race. Northam represents a distinct departure from Obama’s emphasis on charter schools, support for high-stakes standardized tests, and tense relations with teachers unions. In fact, the lieutenant governor has explicitly deemphasized charters and critiqued the testing regime, while unions have sung his praises. His campaign is at once the first big battle against the privatization agenda of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos—whose family gave more than $100,000 to his Republican opponent, Ed Gillespie—and a kind of prototype for left-wing critics of Obama’s education agenda who hope Democrats will chart a new course on public schools.Oh snap! A Mississippi magnet school named for Jefferson Davis is to be renamed for former President Obama. The school, Davis International Baccalaureate Elementary, is one of the top performing elementaries in the state.
Davis Magnet IB PTA President Janelle Jefferson announced at the Jackson School Board meeting Tuesday evening that school stakeholders voted on Oct. 5 to rename the school Barack Obama Magnet IB.
“Jefferson Davis, although infamous in his own right, would probably not be too happy about a diverse school promoting the education of the very individuals he fought to keep enslaved being named after him,” she told the board.What's on your mind?
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