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Congrats to the Garfield High girls softball team which finished first in the state.  They are the first Seattle high school team to ever win this title.  Great job!  From the Times story:

One school had a helicopter pick up some players to take them to prom after a tournament game Friday. Simpson can hardly afford to pay for game balls to practice with, he said.  Garfield did benefit from a $5,000 grant from the Seattle Mariners, which Ken Simpson said was key. 

“We have no money,” he said, not speaking literally. “So that grant was absolutely fantastic because it let me go out and buy basic things like doughnuts and game balls and things we were struggling to have if I didn’t buy them myself. Our uniforms were purchased through that and the girls’ fundraising.”

I wonder if the baseball teams have to fundraise for balls.  (I also wonder what parent had the money to hire a helicopter so some girls could get to the prom.)

Two stories of interest in the Times; one is about a play about the Black Panthers at Franklin High School where students are painting stage panels and the other one is the Times' late-to-the-party science adoption discussion story.

Franklin students of ARR, a social-justice-minded art club, are working on the panels (and learning about Panther history) for the set of “Don’t Call it a Riot!,” a play by local writer Amontaine Aurore about activism in Seattle, particularly the Black Panther Party in the 1960s, its disruption by the covert federal investigators of COINTELPRO, and the WTO demonstrations of 1999.

On the science adoption story, the number of issues not covered/with incorrect information is astonishing.  And it's really odd that the Times had an op-ed in support of the science adoption BEFORE they had a story on said adoption.

• The story says only 20 schools were using Amplify (which is what Mary Margaret Welch says) and yet Amplify's own proposal says 69.  
• The story says the costs is $4.5M. Where did that figure come from - the cost is more than double that (and that's just for the licensing and workbooks, not computers and tech support)?
• Lab kits will NOT be provided to all schools and yet there is finger-wagging at PTAs who buy support materials for their schools.  So schools go without until the district can afford it for all?
• EdReports endorsement of Amplify; at least the Times noted that their Education Lab AND EdReports is funded by the Gates Foundation. 
• No mention of the Board's oversight duty to taxpayers and citizens. 

Interesting news out of Kent School District.  Down there, the district is trying to discourage students from going to Running Start (probably because district lose state dollars when kids are not at school).  But parents are hearing that a large number of students flunk out of Running Start and that teacher signatures are required.  Neither is something I have heard of in SPS.  Parents? 

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