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Friday Open Thread
The story about the man who shot up a street near Lake City and killed two innocent people was bad enough. But to learn that, Deborah Judd, a second-grade teacher at Laurelhurst was one of his other victims - shot three times while driving her car - was shocking. What is truly sad is that she said she had thought that might happen in her school. Her thoughts were not far from her students:“Kids are so traumatized by violence,” she said. “I want to make sure the kids know I’m OK.”
And a big shout-out to Metro bus driver, Eric Stark, who was shot but still got his bus and its passengers away from the continued shooting.
Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, has now been told that her budget will include the funding for the Special Olympics. But that still leaves a lot of cuts including help for students with autism and gifted programs:
While proposing to add $60 million more to charter school funding and create a tax credit for individual and companies that donate to scholarships for private schools, DeVos’ budget proposal would still cut more than $7 billion from the Education Department, about 10 percent of its current budget. Trump proposed a $4.7 trillion overall budget this month with an annual deficit expected to run about $1 trillion.At Wednesday night's Board meeting, the Board unanimously voted for Superintendent Juneau's new Strategic Plan. There will be a State of the District speech by Juneau on April 16th from 5:30-7:00 pm at Seattle Central College. There is a reception from 5:30-6:00pm with a program from 6-7 pm.
It calls for eliminating billions in grants to improve student achievement by reducing class sizes and funding professional development for teachers as well as cutting funds dedicated to increasing the use of technology in schools and improving school conditions. In many cases, DeVos said the purpose of the grants has been found to be redundant or ineffective.
No director meetings this weekend; the Board will be participating in a 7-hour Racial Equity Training on Saturday. Not sure who is presenting but I have a call into the Board office.
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