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Today may be a make or break day for the district in their contract negotiations with the Seattle Education Association. Tomorrow is the preliminary deadline to agree to a new one.The Seattle Times asks an intriguing question: How should the King County Council spend $318M for education?
Job centers on high school campuses. More money to hire teachers of color. Mentors for students.
Over the past two months, the Metropolitan King County Council has heard countless ideas from the public on how it should spend $318 million on education — a one-time windfall provided through a fee on Sound Transit construction contracts.Washington State community colleges have been ranked best in the nation. Story from KOMO:
And the possibilities are nearly endless, because the only string attached is the requirement that council members use that money to improve academic outcomes in early learning, K-12 schools and higher education.
Rather than spreading the money across many different projects and programs, council members seem to prefer funneling the $318 million to a few specific proposals that might generate a bigger impact. And on Aug. 28, the council could vote to whittle down the list of ideas to two main priorities: building new facilities for early learning and home-based child-care programs, and supporting K-12 students to and through college and other programs after high school.
The plan would direct the county to target specific populations, including students with disabilities, children of color, those living in poverty and youth who are homeless or in foster care.
But a group of 16 community-based organizations, calling itself the Racial Equity Coalition, has made a last-minute appeal for the council to provide up to $63.6 million for groups led by people of color.
The group highlighted a report from the United Way of King County that found its funded programs operated by communities of color-based organizations had higher outcomes with youth of color compared to mainstream organizations.
The new report, by personal finance website WalletHub, ranked hundreds of U.S. schools in the American Association of Community Colleges based on 19 different criteria, including costs, efficiency, retention rates, graduation rates and career outcomes.I saw this mention at a Facebook page about Kent School District:
There are some big changes coming with WSPTA and the rollout of Member Planet so I think the group will be a great place to discuss all of it.Anybody?
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