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Seattle Alliance of Black School Educators Candidate Forum for Seattle School BoardThis may be your last opportunity to hear from the candidates.
Advanced Learning Task Force meeting today from 4-7 pm at JSCEE. Agenda.
From SPS Communications:
The College Board has changed its Advanced Placement policies for the 2019-20 school year. Registration will now take place in the fall for spring testing. Previously, students registered for the tests, which take place in May, just a few weeks prior. Seattle Public Schools students must now register to take their AP exams by November 1, 2019.Speaking of AP, news from Illinois from WTTW
Students eligible for free or reduced lunch are also eligible for an AP Fee Waiver and should complete an updated Free and Reduced Lunch Form for 2019-20. The fee to take an AP Exam at Seattle Public Schools is $102 per exam.
A group of Democratic Illinois lawmakers believes the vendor that develops and administers the SAT and Advanced Placement exams may be violating state law by selling student data to colleges, universities and scholarship providers.I may give AG Ferguson a ring on this one.
The crux of their arguments comes from testimony by one of the College Board’s own representatives, who testified before the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee in May and confirmed the organization does distribute student data from the group’s Student Search Service survey at a rate of 45 cents per name, according to the letter. That price has since risen to 47 cents per name.
According to the legislators, the College Board does ask students for their consent in disclosing their data to colleges, universities and scholarship providers. But they apparently do not inform students or parents that this information is sold off.
Speaking of making money, a story from Talking Points Memo on Pearson, the textbook/test developer.
Three days after taking office, George W. Bush unveiled his signature domestic policy, No Child Left Behind. The bill would triple the number of exams the federal government required of students, while dangling stiff penalties over struggling schools. For many educators it felt like a depth charge.And Sped parents might do a spit take at the excuse this father used to a judge after he had been found guilty in the college entrance scandal story. From the NY Times:
The mood was different at Pearson Education, a division of the London-based conglomerate Pearson PLC. As the education community was still absorbing the shock in February 2001, Pearson Education chief executive Peter Jovanovich spoke to a group of Wall Street investment analysts. He pointed them to the proposed annual testing requirements and school report cards. “This,” Jovanovich said, “almost reads like our business plan.”
Pearson Education’s profits increased 175 percent in the decade following No Child Left Behind. “Our assessment businesses are in the sweet spot of education policy,” Scardino told investors in 2005 – a year when more than 60 percent of American school kids lived in states giving Pearson tests.
“I’m going to start off by saying, your honor, that I am deeply sorry for the actions that I have taken and the awful and destructive impact it has had on the family, my children,” and children “just like me who have severe learning issues,” Mr. Henriquez said without further explanation. “I never intended to hurt anybody in this process.”Let me help this guy out with what he meant to say: I never intended - with all my money and privilege to hurt other students, without those two advantages, who were trying to get into college.
Feds are playing hardball with holdout parents pleading not guilty:
According to several of the lawyers involved in the case, prosecutors gave some parents deadlines of Monday or a few days before to agree to plead guilty, or risk facing a new charge that had the potential to bring a longer sentence. These lawyers said they now expected prosecutors to bring that new charge — known as federal programs bribery — against most, if not all, of the parents who stick to their not-guilty pleas.Two documentaries of interest. One is The Kids We Lose which is available for viewing online thru PBS.
When behaviorally-challenged children enter schools many educators are not able to mitigate the nonconforming behaviors. This film investigates how the system uses discipline rather than effective measures, leading to a school-to-prison pipeline for many disadvantaged students.The other is one made locally by Native youth called Honoring Licton Springs. A viewing will be at Seattle Central Library on Saturday, October 26th from 1-3 pm.
What happens when a group of talented Native youth learn skills to be civic leaders and budding community journalists? In early 2019, members of Clear Sky Native Youth Council began investigating the importance of sacred sites. By interviewing local Indigenous elders and learning how to do video interviews, the group lays out a compelling understanding why Licton Springs, Seattle’s last publicly known Native sacred site is a place to be honored and cared for.
The video screening of their short documentary will be accompanied by a youth discussion and mini keynote from Thomas Speer and Matt Remle. This project was made possible with a grant from Seattle Public Library Foundation with production support from Indigenous Showcase.What's on your mind?
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