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Looking at all the drama over the viral video of the students at a Kentucky Catholic school's field trip to Washington, D.C., there's all kind of learning there about what NOT to do on a field trip.  I just wonder what the adults supervising those kids were thinking.  None of that had to happen. 

Several superintendents struck back the Seattle Times about the Times' opposition to Seattle's Operations levy.  This op-ed included Superintendent Juneau (and former superintendent Susan Enfield).  I feel they made solid points. 

There is no doubt that the intention of this new funding model was good, but it does not cover the full cost of education. To be clear: K-12 education is not fully funded by the state. Our districts still need to ask voters to consider local levies.

For example, the state formula funds three school nurses to serve Highline’s 32 schools. With students with daily medical needs in every school, Highline employs five times as many nurses as the state funds. Local levy dollars pay for that. In Seattle, the state funds 226 custodians to care for more than 3,200 classrooms. The district employs 312. Local levy dollars pay for that too.

The reality is that this new law, if left unchanged, will result in massive budget cuts, teacher layoffs and fewer student supports. 

A scholarship offering from the American Legion with the National High School Oratorical Scholarship Program with an application deadline of January 31st.

Good news story from the district:

Seventeen South Lake High School students attended and completed a 12-hour training session with the King County of Alternative Dispute Resolution to become youth co-mediators. Held after school for four days, the students completed a restorative mediation program co-organized by the King County Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution team, Community Passageways, and South Lake teacher Dion Schell. 

“The training was four afternoons after school. [Your] students were a highly involved group. They listened, asked questions, participated in role plays…” Davis wrote in a thank you letter to Brown.

Davis went on to state that, “Studies show youth who participate in mediation builds accountability and empathy...”

 The Advanced Learning Taskforce has a meeting today from 4-7 pm at JSCEE; the agenda looks interesting (partial):

- In small groups, and then large group, debrief opportunities and barriers presented in Models A, B & C
- Based on the opportunities and barriers, what do we want to ensure is incorporated and what do we want to be sure is addressed in future model iterations?

The Board meeting tomorrow night has some items of interest on their agenda:

- This resolution requests a waiver from the Washington State Board of Education of three days from the 180-day school year requirement to allow District elementary schools and K-8 schools to have full-day parent/guardian/teacher conferences on three days that school is not in sessionand a waiver of one day from the 180-day school year requirement to allow District middle schools and high schools to have a full-day parent/guardian/teacher conference on a day when school is not in session.

- Intro/Action for next year's school calendar

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