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Action Alert from the Network for Public Education:The U.S. Senate will soon make critical decisions on federal education funding. The House, to its credit, increased funding for programs such as Title I and Special Olympics, while cutting $100 million from Betsy DeVos's Charter Schools Program (CSP) budget to start new charter schools.
Send your letter and tell the Senate it’s time to investigate the CSP and cut its funding. Let's fund our neediest public schools instead.The Times has a story on the transportation issues at SPS via the Council of Great City Schools. Spoiler! Not good. But of course it's not - the district has been operationally dysfunctional for a very long time. In SPS, operations is like the weather - complain all you want but you can't change it. Charlie and I used to say that if they got operations right, it would be hard for us to fight back on other issues (because policy is more nuanced than, say, getting the buses to run on time).
Just a few months after the height of a bus-driver shortage at First Student that delayed routes by up to two hours, an external review dated January 2019 also found many critical and longstanding problems with oversight and communication in the district’s transportation department, little to no reliance on data to drive decision-making and an overall “lack of urgency to change.”The list of issues of long and appalling. But there are good items:
In just one year, 7,000 additional students received free ORCA cards as a result of a partnership between the district and the city that began last fall. First Student and the department now have regular weekly meetings to improve communication and the district requires GPS tracking and video cameras on all contract buses.New to me:
The district is still reviewing the report, he added, and the recommendations will be brought to the superintendent’s transportation Think Tank, a group of business, city and district leaders tasked with brainstorming more efficient transportation options.Did you hear this good news? Morehouse College graduation speaker, Robert F. Smith, announced at the commencement that he would pay off all the college debt for the class. What a great gift to get all those young men going off to their futures.
From UW's Computer Science and Engineering Department, news parents can use:
In a paper published last week in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the team presents a new app that can detect the presence of fluid behind a child’s eardrum — a telltale sign of infection — anytime, anywhere in a matter of seconds using a smartphone’s microphone and speaker.
Interesting story at the district's website about Graham Hill and their feelings that their school was divided by its Montessori and Gen Ed programs.
The equity teams have committed hours of effort in transitioning the school towards a One School model, where all classrooms will reflect the diversity of the community. Eradicating the Montessori program is not the goal; they want to see the school become more inclusive in all learning spaces.What I always find fascinating about these kinds of stories is that this is a district-created program and the school carries it out. These two entities always act like some terrible thing visited their school. You could ask:
They wanted to hear from families that have historically been excluded.
There are currently two programs at Graham Hill: Montessori and Contemporary. Students in Montessori and Contemporary have separate break and lunch times and have little to no opportunity to be around each other throughout the school year. Upon completion of one grade level, students also move through the school in a cohort model.
- why were families historically excluded? Were families of color not allowed to enroll? Did principals not explain to all families what the program was about?
- how come the principals didn't take steps to unify the school like having lunch and recess times mixed? Or mixing PE and music classes?
Unifying the school is a great idea but how it got divided in the first place, without those in control doing anything about it, is troubling.
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