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Open House for the Science Instructional Materials at Nathan Hale HS from 9 am to 3 pm.Several articles of note.
Nice story in the Times about Ingraham High School's champion basketball team from 50 years ago when Governor Inslee played for the team.
Our guys were tough, aggressive, smart, fast, and we could jump, and there was mutual respect all over the place,” center Ricke Reed said. “Because of that respect, because of that unselfishness, there was an incredible spirit.”Another basketball story, present-day from Garfield- this one sad but inspirational one about a player named Jack Bryant.
They finished 23-0, capped by a 39-38 victory over Hoquiam for the large-school state title.
“We did the most with the least, and that’s a certain category,” he (Inslee) said. “As far as loving the guys you played with, I think we’re probably up there on that score too.”
While his teammates sat, the quiet, reserved Bulldog stood and delivered a short and powerful message at midcourt: He was fighting cancer for the third time since his original Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis in May 2015 when he was 13 years old.The Seattle Times also has an story about lead in the water in Seattle Schools. This certainly has been an issue in the past but one that I thought the district had corrected. As well, the study used in the story has largely been discounted. But hey, I would suppose the Times editorial board wants SPS to look as bad as possible in the weeks leading up to the levies election.
Bryant gave his team a lift with his words in December. A 2-3 team suddenly gained life and won its next seven games and 10 of the next 11.
“That was probably the turning point for our team, and we had one hell of a practice that day,” said Garfield interim coach JayVon Nickens, who at age 13 lost his 17-year-old brother, Terry Manuel, to leukemia in 1993. “That was our best practice of the year. Jack led the charge and since then we bonded better on the court and off the court. Jack has been one of our captains, and he’s leading us every single day.
Friday’s game will be the last for Bryant. Wednesday, he’ll be admitted at Seattle Children’s for a week of intense chemotherapy. He’ll undergo a stem-cell transplant on Feb. 14. Doctors harvested Bryant’s stem cells in June for the procedure that his doctors hope erases his cancer once and for all.
Once every three years, Seattle Public Schools tests drinking fountains and sinks in its schools for high levels of lead and other toxic heavy metals. But the district’s own data show it doesn’t disable or replace every water source that fails its self-imposed 10 parts per billion threshold for lead remediation.
District officials say the high lead readings don’t pose a danger to students, because the failed fixtures are classroom sinks, not drinking fountains — which assumes kids drink exclusively from fountains. But as of this summer, district data showed elevated lead levels in some drinking fountains in at least seven schools and Memorial Stadium at Seattle Center, home to high-school and professional games.
The highest level of lead was discovered at a drinking fountain in Green Lake Elementary. There, a combination fixture — with both a fountain and a sink — registered levels of lead in 2016 nearly six times the district’s self-imposed limit of 10 parts per billion and four times above a federal standard of 15 parts per billion.I can say as someone in an elementary school weekly, that kids have been told they can't drink the water from the taps in the bathrooms (and who does actually drink from a bathroom tap?). That said, I'm not surprised Memorial Stadium registers poorly; it's in extremely bad shape.
In other bad news, KUOW had a report on the costs to the district from their bus service, First Student.
The school district has a three-year contract with First Student, and pays the company $30 million a year. The contract requires the bus company to pay for late and missed routes, and the cost of paying for back-up buses.
But the district has not enforced this requirement, and instead has shouldered the financial burden for First Student’s failure to run buses on time.
The school bus company, North America’s largest, was supposed to compensate Seattle Public Schools for the service problems, according to its contract with the district. But First Student kept sending the usual invoices, and Seattle schools officials kept paying them … all the while shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars for back-up buses, taxis, and Metro bus passes.
Now, halfway through the year, a KUOW analysis shows that First Student owes the district an estimated $3.3 million … with no indication that the district will recoup anywhere near that amount.
The district would not tell KUOW how many late or blown routes it has tallied this school year, citing negotiations with the contractor.
“The district is in a tenuous position when the contract is up next year,” said Shannon McMinimee, former attorney for Seattle Public Schools. “They could be worried that they will have no bidders next year if they are aggressive now.”
If the district paid for routes that First Student failed to run as promised, that could be a violation of state law, which requires that agencies certify that services have been rendered, and “labor performed as described,” before paying contractor invoices.There are no Director Community meetings on Saturday.
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