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I had meant to try to see the number of hits at this blog change but I got busy and forgot.  So I missed when it ticked from 11M to now 12,202,580 hits for all its years.  Thank you to all my readers.  (Interestingly, while the U.S. is the #1 spot, Ukraine comes in second.)

I note that a group of youth from the NAACP Youth Coalition spoke at this week's Board meeting about racism and inequities in the district.  One student asked why every school didn't have a Race and Equity team.  That is a good question and, at this point, I think they have them in half the schools.  One issue may just be that some schools may be dragging their feet because of the need to find people who will serve and really do the work.  But for staff who already seem to work fairly hard, it may be one more district directive that they don't have the time or support to fulfill even if it is for the best of reasons.

There is the briefest of stories on KUOW about the Hamilton Twitter issue and I see none at the Times.  Hmmm.  Has there been any tv coverage?

Over at Soup for Teachers, they are discussing inequities in PTA fundraising and SCPTSA says this:

SCPTSA is in the process of putting together an informational budget gathering effort to assess the amount of funding parents raise for individual public schools in the Seattle Public School District to better understand PTSA/PTAs/PTOs financial contributions to Seattle schools overall. While we are still working out the protocol with SPS, PTSAs/PTOs can send us their actual (not projected) budget for 2017-2018 to include in the analysis, including how line items were allocated.

Data will not be presented by individual school, but rather aggregates will be presented based on categorizations.

I'll be interested to see how many schools participate.  I don't know if they are required to give this information or not (I'd think the state PTA could ask for it but I'm not sure).  And again, at the high school level, the big money is NOT in PTA but in the foundations and booster clubs.   They are also floating the idea - as in Portland - of all PTAs committing to 10% of their fundraising into a pool to help less fortunate schools.  Thoughts?

The chickens are already coming home to roost for the McCleary school funding; both Tacoma SD and Aberdeen SD are cutting staff.  Tacoma - to their credit - has cut only central staff while Aberdeen is doing this:

From The Daily World -

Facing the prospect of teacher layoffs for next year, the Aberdeen School District is offering $10,000 incentive payments to senior teachers who commit to leaving their jobs at the end of the school year. The idea is that teachers lower on the pay scale would take some of the jobs, but some would simply go unfilled.

Meanwhile, Washington's Paramount Duty is advocating for:

WPD is advocating for a capital gains tax on the top 2-3% and closing tax loopholes for big business to fund K-12 education—including special education, counselors, nurses, librarians, educators, and other essentials in our public schools. 

Community Meetings with Directors on Saturday the 22nd
Director Betty Patu from 9-11am at Raconteur, 5041 Wilson Ave S
President Leslie Harris from 3-5 pm at SW Branch Library, 9010 35th Ave SW

I'm hearing that Ballard High staff have been directed to come to an all-staff meeting today.  Anyone know what that is about? 

What's on your mind? 

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