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Wednesday Open Thread
Heads up - bus strike by First Student drivers starts tomorrow, Thursday, Feb. 1st. From the district:The First Student bus drivers have stated they are going on a strike starting Thursday, Feb. 1. This means there will be no yellow school bus service starting Thursday and until further notice. You will need to use your family’s plan to get your student to and from school. We will remind families who will be affected by the strike by phone and email on Wednesday, Jan. 31.Huge speaker list for tonight's Board meeting - 25 speakers plus 31 on the waitlist. Looks like the majority of speakers will speak on high school HC pathways and boundaries.
We recognize the inconvenience this will have on Seattle families. We have prepared answers to some of the questions you might have, and those are listed below.
We will use the website and social media to provide regular updates. When the bus service resumes, we will notify families using email and voice messages, too.
Turns out Amendment 4 on HC pathways for high schools is from President Harris and also Director Eden Mack for current 6th/7th graders from West Seattle attending Washington MS now to grandfather to Garfield. It looks like that would be about 40 students. Double the number of HC students are enrolled at Madison MS and would go to West Seattle HS.
There is an Amendment 5 but there is no link or documentation. It just says:
Amendment 5: Provide 9th and 10th grade highly capable students in the new Lincoln pathway area the option to attend Lincoln, and allow all 9th grade highly capable eligible students district-wide to attend their pathway school. Approval of this item would provide 9th and 10th grade highly capable students in the new Lincoln pathway area the option to attend Lincoln and allows all 9th grade highly capable-eligible students district-wide to attend their pathway school.Kind of odd - the Board is to vote in a resolution in support of Black Lives Matter Week at tonight's Board meeting, Superintendent Nyland sent out a letter to families about Black History Month including wording on Black Lives Matter Week and yet there is nothing on the website about it. If the district supports this effort, why is nothing being said in the one place where most parents get information? Not even reprinting Nyland's letter? I have a couple of documents that Nyland sent to staff that I will post under the BLM thread.
It appears that the district is softening/changing its stance on the proposed high school science curriculum changes (at least at Ballard). This from an inside source I have. Theirs may be a different sequence from the rest of the high schools (which I'm sure may prompt some of them to say, "Why can't we, too?" Biotech at Ballard is saved. As well, there may be a delay in more advanced science courses to allow students to build math skills they need for those courses. I also hear the Board may want to weigh in on the process. Stay tuned.
Hey, Washington comes in third in the nation for state charter school laws but gets dinged for having a cap on the number of them. Oh well. However, the strength of the law gets these points:
Its score increased because of changes in the methodology for Component #3 (Non-district Authorizers Available) and clarification about existing policy for Component #8 (Comprehensive Charter School Monitoring and Data Collection Processes), Component #10 (Transparency Regarding Educational Service Providers), Component #12 (Clear Student Enrollment and Lottery Procedures), #16 (Extracurricular and Interscholastic Activities Eligibility and Access), and Component #17 (Clear Provisions Regarding Special Education Responsibilities).They suggest that charters need access to state capital funds. I did attend the Charter Commission meeting and there are updates on the Green Dot high school zoning departure. I'll have a thread this weekend.
I attended the Work Session on the superintendent search yesterday. Pretty spirited discussion. It appeared there was a tepid attempt to derail the search but that went nowhere. I'll have a thread on that as well this weekend but I can say that the Board is moving forward and explicitly said they want more engagement as semi-finalists and finalists become known.
What's on your mind?
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