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I hear that after all this rain, the weekend should be nice. Cross your fingers.I attended the Board meeting and I'll try to have some feedback on that. But in terms of interacting with directors, I note that Director DeWolf - despite promising to have some community meetings in March - still has not had a single one. He does seem to like to go to public events so maybe you can catch him there. Director Geary noted that she seems to be busy on weekends but has her Tuesday morning coffee at Zoka behind U Village from 8:00 am-9:30 am. She also said that you can call her to talk on the phone (but I don't know what number you would call).
There are no director community meetings this weekend. That's probably because the Board is having an Executive session to review superintendent applications from noon to 4ish. THEN, they are having a Work Session on questions for those candidates that the public can attend. But that will only be until 4:30 pm. I'd like to attend but I'm not driving down to JSCEE to hang around for a half-hour session. Weird.
I note that there is a BEX Oversight Committee meeting tomorrow morning from 8:30-10:30 am at JSCEE. One troubling item to me is that the district has apparently hired Bassetti Architects as consultants on BEX V and yet also gives Bassetti a lot of business. I wonder how other businesses feel about this "in" that Bassetti has.
Interesting article from The Columbian on the question of whether a large school district can be divided up - in this case, Battle Ground SD. The answer:
Bellevue School district students are planning a walk-out next week on the 14th. From the Bellevue Reporter:
Whether smaller districts would better serve constituents is a subjective measure, one that, for now, will have to remain untested. A district cannot, under state law, divide and reorganize into multiple separate districts.
State law sets strict standards for the creation of new school districts. According to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, new school districts can only be made of two or more whole school districts, parts of two or more districts, or territory that isn’t part of any district. So Battle Ground, for example, can’t be officially divided into its north and south schools as two new districts.
“The statute does not allow for the formation of a new district that is comprised solely of territory that currently lies within a single district,” said Dierk Meierbachtol, chief legal officer for OSPI.
The Facebook event “Enough: National School Walkout, Bellevue High School,” states the demonstration will last 17 minutes to honor the 17 lives lost in the Parkland, Florida school shooting.On that note, advice from the ACLU for student protestors.
Bellevue School District spokeswoman Eileen Harrity confirmed other high schools in the district are planning similar rallies for the same time and day.
The board passed a resolution Tuesday backing those students’ actions to gather peacefully and express their views as long as they complied with district policies.
Betsy DeVos visited Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, site of the latest mass shooting. It didn't go well.
She also told reporters she toured the school with student journalists, and vowed to return to sit down with them and further delve into the issues.Oh look, another shooting at a school, this time in Alabama.
Carly Desomond, editor of the school newspaper, The Eagle Eye, however, said DeVos “refused to even meet/speak with students.”
When further pressed on the issue of arming school staff, with questions surrounding training standards and student opposition to such a program, DeVos walked away from her podium and ended the press conference.
One student was killed and another was in critical condition after an accidental shooting during dismissal time at a high school in Birmingham, Alabama, police said.What's on your mind?
At least two gunshots were fired, killing a 17-year-old female student and injuring a 17-year-old male student at Huffman High School, said Birmingham police Chief Orlando Wilson. He said police considered the shooting accidental, but did not elaborate.
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