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What a week.

Note to self; don't call anyone in any kind of government/school office on a Friday (even before 3 pm), they are all gone.  I have a ton of calls into City Hall and SPS and there's nobody around.

Thanks to a reader for this heads up from My Ballard/KING 5 about a Magnolia parent threatening to sue the district over access to Ballard High School.  The article is also notable because someone purporting to be City Attorney Pete Holmes weighed in at the comments.
One parent who is also an attorney, Margaret Cerrato-Blue told KING 5 that Magnolia parents have yet to receive any formal notification from the district, which she believes is a violation of due process.

“If we have to go to court, you will stay at Ballard because it’s the legal and right thing for them to do,” she said.

Most agree that the boundary debacle stems from the city’s lack of a high school in either Magnolia or Queen Anne, two neighborhoods with a combined population of about 44,000 people. The omission is intensified by Seattle’s population growth and traffic woes.

“Just give them a school,” explained a Seattle Times editorial back in 2008. “This idea isn’t new. It just has been ignored.”
 No kidding and look where we are now.

The Times has a tepid article about the issue with Green Dot charter schools and their need for a departure from zoning laws from the City.  My article has a lot more meat and information to it.  And then they immediately have another article from the head of the Washington State Charter Schools Association.  But the Times likes charters so that's no surprise that they want to shore up what they like and ignore real news in their reporting.

Director DeWolf has put out an ask to the SPS community:

Friday, January 26th is Count Us In, King County’s Point-in-Time Count for all populations. Count Us In takes place on Friday, January 26th from 2AM to 6AM. On Friday, January 26th, volunteers will be asked to work in teams of 2-3 to conduct a visual count of individuals experiencing homelessness across King County. Teams are comprised of community volunteers and expert guides (individuals currently/previously experiencing homelessness), who will walk/drive all over their assigned routes beginning in the early morning hours (specific times to be determined). Volunteers are expected to have a cell phone, and and to walk approximately 2-3 miles if necessary. Volunteers with cars will be asked to help transport their team members on the day of the count. 

Great story from the South Seattle Emerald - How a Mother’s Fierce Love is Transforming Community and Family Engagement Practices for Somali Parents in South King County School Districts.

The Baltimore teachers union is calling for all schools to be closed due to lack of heating.  Seeing kids zipped up in their coats and huddling around for warmth doesn't seem conducive to learning.

Baltimore is home to some of the state’s oldest school infrastructure, and Santelises said “too many of our buildings have outdated heating systems, poor insulation, and aging pipes as a result of years of inadequate funding for maintenance and facilities improvements.”

I have to say, I tutor in an older building and it is chilly sometimes.  Hard to imagine what it could be like with frigid temps.

Anyone attend the Friday meeting of the High School Boundaries TaskForce?  Let me know and I'll start a separate thread.

There are no director community meetings on Saturday.

What's on your mind?


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