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Tuesday Open Thread
Despite overflowing speaker lists at the last several Board meetings, this list for tomorrow night's meeting isn't even full.I see that former Mayor/City Council member Tim Burgess is already stumping for the City's pre-K levy. He does leave out several things like how the City is much less a good partner to the district than the district is to the City. I'll have a separate thread on this but I hope this Board tell the City some things need to be clarified and/or changed for this "partnership."
And, everyone on the City Council as well as Mayor Durkan need to publicly state their views on charter schools.
There will be a protest Thursday, Feb. 15th from 4-6 pm outside of the site of a new high school that Green Dot Charter Schools is building at 6002 Rainier Ave. S. It is hosted by the Social Equity Educators and endorsed by SEA. As I mentioned previously, Green Dot has backed off its attempt at a zoning departure after it was revealed that there was not a legal basis to do so and that the City had not included the district on the zoning departure committee as the code requires. The school will have a small capacity than Green Dot had wanted.
Numerous communities have levies on their local ballots today. It will be interesting to see how well these elections go given the changes coming to property taxes to pay for McCleary funding.
An interesting story from the University of Washington about the use of touchscreens and accessibility for those with disabilities.
New Zealand has decided to pull the plug on charter schools in that country.
"Both National Standards and charter schools were driven by ideology rather than evidence. Both were rejected by the vast majority of the education sector. The Government's strong view is that there is no place for them in the New Zealand education system."An amusing story about teens in Kansas running for office (and the adults who want them to stop).
In a state where the youth voting rate is even worse than the dismal national average, more than half a dozen Kansas teens are running for statewide office in 2018 – a sort of viral movement against apathy that could, in theory, make a high school student governor.What's on your mind?
From there, running for governor became something of a high school trend. Four candidates, all 16 or 17, held a forum inside the Lawrence Free State high school gym in October – long before any of their adult counterparts held a debate, the Wichita Eagle wrote.
The forum looked not much different from any other, the newspaper reported. Teens in the audience murmured when a 17-year-old libertarian candidate got a jab in at Ruzich during a debate about toll roads. “You don’t drive yet,” he quipped.
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