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Via Twitter from Dick's:Don’t forget #RoundUP for charity August 26-29th at our Wallingford location! Bring your friends and your family and "round up" the bill. All proceeds will be donated to the newly re-opened Lincoln High School!
The Seattle Pre-K program is advertising for more students - right now, they have about 80 spots open citywide. Seems odd that they aren't full given their expansion plans.
From Harvard's The Crimson: Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked
U.S. officials deported Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian resident of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday night shortly after he arrived at Boston Logan International Airport. Before canceling Ajjawi’s visa, immigration officers subjected him to hours of questioning — at one point leaving to search his phone and computer — according to a written statement by Ajjawi.
Ajjawi wrote that he told the officer he had not made any political posts and that he should not be held responsible for others’ posts.
“I responded that I have no business with such posts and that I didn't like, [s]hare or comment on them and told her that I shouldn't be held responsible for what others post,” he wrote. “I have no single post on my timeline discussing politics.”What is concerning here is what if this kind of heavy-handed treatment starts trickling down? Like to scholarships or college admissions? If your student "likes" or reposts, is that grounds to kick them out of a school or rescind their enrollment?
University officials are currently working to resolve the matter before classes begin on Sept. 3, University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an email.
Via Twitter from Diane Ravitch:
How long can standardized testing fail to do anything but enrich testing corporations without folks demanding change?
I note that several candidates for school board have indeed state their unhappiness with standardized testing. I have been on the record against it as well. But what would it take to change it, given the feds could punish districts that have high opt-out rates? And what would replace it so parents and taxpayers know how students are doing?
Also on Twitter is this story about a Native American-focused charter school in Oklahoma; I saw it because the Washington State Charter Schools Association retweeted it. I did hear that Superintendent Juneau had suggested this to the embattled UNEA group several months ago. But a charter school is a heavy, heavy lift in this state.
I'll have a thread on charter schools soon; apparently one of the newer ones here - Willow - is struggling to keep going.
As well, there is a trend of charter schools being more segregated than public school districts. The KIPP chain has mostly African-American students and many charter schools in LA are mainly Hispanic. And parents like it because they feel more comfortable with their children being in schools where the students and parents look like them. Good thing or bad thing?
One irony for UNEA with the coming revamping of Advanced Learning; I wonder if Cascadia was no longer an HCC school, would the district move Licton Springs K-8 there? (On the premise that HCC services would be provided in every classroom in every school in the district.)
What's on your mind?
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