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The district has announced they will no longer print and distribute paper calendars to families due to costs. They say you can print one yourself from their website or use their app. They used to sell space on the calendars. As someone said on Facebook, they couldn't get a business to be a good corporate citizen and do this? I can't believe it's saving that much money.Additional funding received from the state and/or local levy has been directed to schools and classrooms. Learn more about the 2019-20 budget shortfall and state investment next school year. This means that some functions and supports provided at central office can no longer continue.The district appears to be getting cozy with the Alliance for Education again. The Alliance held their annual luncheon recently and the Superintendent was front and center. There was also an announcement that Amazon has set up - thru the Alliance - a $250,000 out-of-school fund for SPS students. No word yet on how it will be used/distributed.
It's an all Seattle final for the state girls high school Ultimate Frisbee championship tonight between the teams from Roosevelt and Franklin. Good luck to all!
Ballard High Schools' Digital Filmmaking program marches on in excellence:
The Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced nominees for the Northwest High School Awards of Excellence. Students from the Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking Program earned
a staggering 18 nominations (over twice as many as any other school). These awards celebrate the most outstanding productions from five Northwest states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Productions are nominated by NATAS industry professionals. The winners will be announced on June 8 at the 56th Annual Northwest Emmy Awards.All the nominated productions had their premieres at the Ballard Film Festival (BFF). This event screens new films by BHS Digital Filmmaking students at the end of every semester. The next BFF will be Saturday, June 15 at 7 pm in the BHS auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults and will be sold at the door.
The Washington State Board of Education revamped its "Schools of Recognition" criteria and this year there were many Seattle schools that made the cut - John Rogers, McDonald, Middle College, Seattle World School, View Ridge, Viewlands, Washington, Adams Elementary, Alki, Beacon Hill, Fairmount Park, Coe, Graham Hill, Hawthorne, JAMS, Hay, and Muir.
Despite strides and efforts, discipline meted out in schools still appears to be disproportional. Story from Crosscut (with a great interactive chart):
Despite enduring racial disproportionality, discipline rates across the state overall have shown mostly steady improvement in the four years following the reporting requirement. However, the state saw a sharp increase in its discipline rate in 2018.Once again, despite the high interest in the Science adoption votes at next Wednesday's Board meeting, there are no director community meetings this weekend.
However, officials at OSPI say better data reporting by schools and changes to what information was factored into the new discipline rate may partially explain the uptick.
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