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Crosscut has a story on the new Strategic Plan (I was interviewed for the story). Remember how this district says everything will be viewed thru the Racial Equity tool? Apparently the new plan wasn't. Director Geary, who is all things equity, says the committee overlooked using it. (There are several times when reading BARs before the Board that it isn't used. Hard to understand when the district will or will not use it but it seems to be ... at will.)But despite the promise of more to come, Marquita Prinzing expressed uneasiness about the development of the plan.All public schools in Charlottesville, Virginia were closed for a second day yesterday due to threats against students of color.
"If I knew who was leading the work, I'd have a little more faith,” the director of the Seattle Education Association’s Center for Racial Equity said. “It kind of felt like the strategic plan came from nowhere. But these kinds of things get co-opted or dismissed before they ever get institutionalized."
Yesterday a student at Robert Eagle Staff Middle School was hit by a car walking in a crosswalk in front of the school. I know that area and it's been disappointing to see so many drivers not slow down despite the clear signage and obvious presence of three schools. The student had minor injuries.The schools were also closed on Thursday after an anonymous person posted a message on 4Chan targeting black and minority students at Charlottesville High School and telling white students to stay home.
In an echo from a past SPS story, a data broker in New Jersey, after saying they don't sell data on minors, did just that. (The SPS story was with a company that had SPS student data, signed a contract saying if they got bought all data would be returned to SPS. That happened and the new owner said they were keeping the data. The district prevailed without going to court and got the data back.)
A New Jersey company that collects and sells personal information about consumers told regulators that it did not knowingly possess data on minors, even as it advertised a mailing list of more than a million high school students for sale on its website.
ALC Inc., a Princeton-based company, failed to acknowledge the possession of data on minors as required to comply with a Vermont law, the first of its kind in the country.The 74 has an article on this great new downtown school in Seattle that has experiential learning. Is it an SPS school? No. Charter school? No. It's a private school. I'm guessing that the 74 - a noted ed reform site - thinks it's so great that public schools should emulate it.
But the company explicitly offered to sell data on 1.2 million students aged 14 to 17, including their names, addresses, high schools, and hobbies, according to an advertisement on its website. The firm also offered parents’ names, household incomes, and ethnicity, among other information. The starting price for the data was $100 per thousand records.
This is the school that is the lower-grade cousin of Lakeside and only! $17,500 per year. (And if you think that cost to parents covers everything, well, it doesn't.)
Sue Belcher, head of The Downtown School, wants to create a different approach to preparing students for college by moving beyond two traditional paths: students taking as many classes as possible — which works for some but causes burnout for others — or becoming a standout in an artistic or athletic pursuit.Is this true -those are the only two choice for high school students?
At The Downtown School, tuition is half that ($17,500), classes are limited, student enrollment is a fraction of the size, extracurriculars are few, and the school day is shorter so students can participate in sports or activities elsewhere.That participating in sports elsewhere? Any private school student can participate in a public school sport (like charter students). They do have to pay fees like other students but it's the public school that is fronting the infrastructure.
There are no director community meetings today but there are two SPS events:
Seattle Public Schools Science Instructional Materials Adoption Committee Meeting
This meeting is for committee (K-5 and 6-8 combined committees) members only. It is a closed session. John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence (JSCEE), 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
I'm a bit confused on this one because I was told the public COULD go. I can only guess that this is to head off any more input from parents.
Promoting Participation: Inclusive Physical Activity Fair
Eckstein Middle School from 3:30-6:30 pm
A FREE event that provides an opportunity for the community to come together and support the inclusive physical activity engagement of students and families from Seattle Public Schools. Representatives from various community organizations will be present and activity stations will be universal for participation of all abilities. Students can sign up for spring/summer camps and enjoy a couple hours of FUN participation in physical activity.Who: ALL students and families of Seattle Public Schools. All grade levels. This is a fully inclusive event for students with and without disabilities.
Each participant will get a “passport book” upon check in. The book contains an area to collect a stamp from every activity or booth they visit. Collecting a qualifying number of stamps earns a ticket into the raffle drawing.
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