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Free fun for kids tomorrow, Saturday, July 27th, from noon to six pm at Seattle Center - Seafair FanFest. This precedes the Torchlight parade.News from a charter school that is mostly students of color in Detroit; because the top students selected to speak at graduation said things about the school that the administration didn't like, the school is withholding the transcripts of ALL the seniors. I'm not even sure that's legal. From the Chalkbeat blog dated July 5th:
Morrow confirmed that the company has hired a lawyer to review the graduation speeches, which raised alarms about the number of long-term substitutes employed by the school and decried what they called a culture of retaliation, pointing to the controversial firing of eight teachers in 2016.Very good article from the Seattle Times about the long-simmering issues between the district and the Urban Native Education Alliance and the use of space at RESMS. The district abruptly ended the long partnership between the two, citing paperwork not turned in and changes in how the district is doing partnerships. The district says UNEA is welcome to use the space but must now pay for it. I've seen the programming UNEA does on district property. It would cost them a fortune to pay (that just how many activities and gatherings the group has for Native youth).
They (students) believe it amounts to a retaliation by Hamadeh Educational Services, the company that manages their school, for critical graduation speeches that put it at the center of a social media tempest last month.
School officials, who deny claims of retaliation, sent a letter to parents on Friday saying that transcripts will be released next week. Students at other schools operated by the company say their official transcripts were sent as early as two weeks ago.
The letter to parents was sent after a group of students and parents went to the company’s Dearborn Heights headquarters on Friday to demand the transcripts. They were locked out, and someone inside the building called the police, who asked them to leave or risk being charged with trespassing.
Spinning off from this topic, I recently found this:
If you don’t know whose land you are occupying, here’s an awesome map where you can enter in your city in the US or Canada and it’ll tell you, along with links so you can learn more about the Nations or tribes whose land you are on.
In our continuing roundup of stories on "How bad is Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos?"
Politico - DeVos sued over student loan forgiveness program that denies 99 percent of applicants
Politico - DeVos' use of personal email as secretary probed by House Democrats
New York Times - Emails Show DeVos Aides Pulled Strings for Failing For-Profit Colleges
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