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I attended a great talk last night sponsored by Town Hall. The speaker was Professor Justin Driver and he talked about his book, The School House Gate, which covers public education cases in the Supreme Court. Interestingly enough, one of the cases he writes about in the book is the race tiebreaker case from Seattle Public Schools. (He also talked about one of my favorite public ed cases, one in which a student got into trouble for his sign, Bong Hitz 4 Jesus.) I'm going to read the book.He did mention one issue about the Seattle case that I hadn't known - the district had a box on the enrollment form for race that had to be filled in (if the parent didn't do it, the district did). I let him know that the parents who brought the case never got what they wanted - a high school in their area - and that the racial tiebreaker had worked both ways (for white students wanting to get into Franklin).
Speaking of Town Hall, they have a great series of family concerts coming up. The next one is October 13th at 11 am at The Royal Room by the Bushwick Book Club Seattle. Tickets are $5 for adults/kids over 12. Kids under 12 go for free.
It appears that several states are dropping the PARC/SBAC in favor of state-produced assessments.
Maryland plans to replace PARCC with an assessment of their own The Baltimore Sun reports. Maryland’s upcoming departure coupled with New Jersey’s exit will drop the Common Core assessment consortium that once boasted 27 partners (including 24 states) down to five.
When a state has decided to jettison PARCC or Smarter Balanced, as long as a state continues to use Common Core math and ELA standards they will have a Common Core-aligned assessment. The Every Student Succeeds Act mandates the alignment of a state’s standards and assessment.From Ed Week: Oregon has decided to drop the Smarter Balanced exam at the high school level, a move that has not only practical but symbolic significance, since the state served as a home base for the consortium, and played a leading role in its development.
Look who's getting into public education - Jeff Bezos. He wants to open free nationwide pre-k schools based on the Montessori method. Wonder what this might mean for the city of Seattle's pre-k program.
No director community meetings this weekend; the Board is having its first retreat with Superintendent Juneau. The agenda doesn't really explain much about what will be discussed. Open to the public; JSCEE from 9 am -12:30 pm.
One item to note - next week's Board meeting will be on Tuesday, the 18th, not Wednesday. I didn't find out what caused the change for the meeting; Board meetings are normally on Wednesdays.
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