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Puget Sound Business Journal put out its annual "best of" list for area elementary schools based on diversity, class size and academics.Among the SPS schools named:
#100 - Thornton Creek
#99 - View Ridge
#86 - Loyal Heights
#70 - Pathfinder K-8
#68 - Thurgood Marshall
#66 - Wedgwood
#65 - Genesee Hill
#60 - McDonald International
#57 - McGilvra
#46 - Green Lake
#30 - Montlake
#19 - John Stanford International
I was amazed at some class ratios like Thornton Creek at 14:1, View Ridge 17:1, Montlake 16:1 but in a random check of non-SPS schools on the list, most were under 20 students.
I'm hearing word there may be some movement on the district asking the City to be included on an EIS for the Fort Lawton property which may end up with the district getting some free land from the feds.
Here's a good idea; if you opt your child out of some/all testing, let the State Superintendent know your reasoning as well as your legislators.
chris.reykdal@k12.wa.us and here's the link to look up your legislator's e-mail address.
Here's a great article from Seattle's Child about the school funding issues in our state. Also to note, the Kansas Supreme Court yesterday rejected their legislature's attempt at school funding.
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state’s new school finance system is unconstitutional, striking a definitive blow to the Legislature’s latest effort.I predict this will be the outcome with the Washington State Supreme Court and McCleary in the coming weeks.
The decision found the state failed to meet the Kansas Constitution’s requirements to adequately fund education, but it did not specify a dollar amount to reach constitutional muster.
With Monday’s decision, the latest stage of the Gannon v. Kansas school finance case, the justices sent the issue back to lawmakers as they head into an election-year legislative session in January.
“...While we stay the issuance of today’s mandate through June 30, 2018, after that date we will not allow ourselves to be placed in the position of being complicit actors in the continuing deprivation of a constitutionally adequate and equitable education owed to hundreds of thousands of Kansas school children,” the decision reads.
“I think the court’s drawn a line in the sand and they’ve issued the warning of, ‘Don’t test us on this one this time around,’ ” said Olathe Superintendent John Allison, a longtime Wichita superintendent who started in Olathe this school year.
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