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The last Friday Open Thread (for now).  Here's hoping you all had a satisfying Thanksgiving with friends and family. 

Two stories on school funding have crossed my desk.

 First up, Baltimore via their local FOX station:

Baltimore City Schools has a $1.3 billion budget. Per pupil, it’s the third most-funded large school system in America, according to the U.S. Census.

Much of that $1.3 billion is going directly to parents. In just one year, a Project Baltimore investigation has found that City Schools, and other districts, paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlements for failing to educate students with disabilities.

Attorney Wayne Steedman specializes in disability law. He says he gets about 40 calls a month from parents like Gray whose children are not getting the educational services they need, even though schools must provide those services by law.

“It comes down to the money. It's a budgetary issue. And principals, they want to keep their jobs. So, they're being told from central office, this is what your budget is. Don't exceed your budget. If you exceed your budget, you may not be a principal anymore,” Steedman tells Project Baltimore.

But as schools try to stay on budget, it’s costing taxpayers. A Project Baltimore investigation found, just last year, North Avenue paid out $363,603.32 in 111 settlements to resolve disability complaints. That’s more than two settlements a week.

This week the governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, signed legislation to provide more funding for public schools.

Massachusetts’ public schools will receive their largest influx of new money since the state first established its school funding formula in 1993, under a bill signed by Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday.

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in 63 years, it’s that talent is evenly distributed,” Baker said after signing the bill. “What’s not evenly distributed is opportunity. There’s a reason why this is the Student Opportunity Act, because this legislation is about making sure that every kid in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, regardless of where they live, where they go to school, where they’re from, has the opportunity to get the education they need to be great.”

The education funding overhaul will provide $1.5 billion more in funding annually for the state’s public education system, compared to funding today, once it is fully phased in seven years from now. The districts slated to receive the most money are those with high concentrations of poor students and those with a large number of students learning English.

Traveling this holiday season with a child or adult that has a hidden disability?  News from SeaTac airport:

Sea-Tac Airport is now the first in North America to offer a way to do just that. Since October, it has stocked green lanyards printed with yellow sunflowers at its customer service desks that are available by request to anyone traveling with a "hidden disability" — a condition that may not be readily obvious — including autism spectrum disorder, epilepsy, hearing loss, anxiety or dementia.

The lanyards don’t grant wearers special security clearance or the ability to skip lines, says Perry Cooper, a Sea-Tac spokesman. But airport workers have been trained to recognize the lanyards as a signal that a traveler might need extra assistance, patience or simply a bit of kindness to make the journey easier for them and for everyone in their orbit. 

“We’re trying to become the most accessible airport in the country,” says Cooper. Airport helpers dressed in teal called Pathfinders are also able to hand out the lanyards, he says, and travelers can fill out this form (with advanced notice) if they’d like to schedule an "airport dress rehearsal" to prepare for future travel.

Don't know if most of you have ever seen this page at the SPS website but they have one on commonly used acronyms and abbreviations in the district as well as a district glossary page.
I'm still hoping they add "suspend your privilege" and "hoarding opportunities" so all parents know what the district specifically means when using those terms.

The district has a notice about the elementary progress reports; they will now include SEL (Social- Emotional Learning.

Social-emotional learning (SEL) helps children manage emotions, set and achieve goals, express empathy, establish positive relationships, and make decisions. These skills are important for learning in school communities. SEL skills are part of all subject areas, so students learn and practice them through the school day. 

Teachers emphasize and evaluate these skills on elementary student progress reports:

• identifying strengths, feelings and needs
• seeking to understand others
• building cooperative relationships
• critical thinking
• decision making
• following safety standards and
• working through challenges

Teachers use the words Strength (S), Developing (D), and Emerging (E) to describe students’ SEL growth.

• Strength: consistently uses skills across subjects and settings
• Developing: uses skills in most subjects and settings
• Emerging: beginning to use skills in some subjects and settings 

The temps in Seattle for the next couple of nights is going below 32 degrees; maybe a dusting of snow? 

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