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Tuesday Open Thread
I attended what I believe is the first forum for school board candidates last night at Roosevelt High. Oddly, it was just for North Seattle candidates (not those in the SW). I'll have a full report but it was strangely listless.Yesterday I tweeted the news about the 4500 Expedia employees coming over to the Interbay area and the newly announced 2,000 more Apple employees coming to Seattle to the district and the Superintendent. No response but I suspect there are some families in there so it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
How often do Washington schools restrain or seclude students? No good data but that may change. Story from the Seattle Times:
In a report released earlier this week, the GAO found that 70% of the more than 17,000 school districts in the U.S. reported zero incidents of restraining or secluding students during the 2015-16 school year, the most recent data available.
“Our findings raise serious concerns about underreporting and misreporting of the use of seclusion and restraint,” Jackie Nowicki, a director at the GAO and author of the report, told the WAMU public-radio station in Washington, D.C. “It is therefore not possible to know the extent of the use of seclusion and restraint nationwide.”
In Washington, the new federal report said that nearly three out of four school districts similarly reported zero such incidents.
Looks like another big board meeting with folks from the Urban Native Education Alliance coming to speak out on the abrupt ending of the partnership they had with Seattle Schools.
In Washington, several of the state’s largest school districts — including Everett, Lake Washington and Tacoma, with a combined enrollment of more than 82,000 students — reported zero incidents.
As well, advocates for more progress on the implementation of Ethnic Studies will be there in numbers as well. I support both efforts.
As I reported previously, when the Board was discussing the vote on the Science adoption, Director Burke brought up the commitments that the district had made to Ethic Studies as well as Time Immemorial Native American curriculum and those financial needs of those commitments. Head of Curriculum Kyle Kinshita came to the podium to say - I paraphrase - that at the bandwidth that both programs were operating at currently, they don't need more money (meaning, they couldn't do more at the present time). Odd.
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