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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: School Board Meeting Review

Seattle Schools Community Forum: School Board Meeting Review:


School Board Meeting Review

It was a lively meeting to be sure.  I stayed until after the discussion of the introduction of the TFA item.  Here are links (Part 2 - testimony, Part 3- rest of meeting).

The testimony was more varied than I might have expected as TFA was not the only issue discussed.  In fact, testimony about Graham Hill's preschool led to discussion at the Audit & Finance Committee meeting the next day and Sherry Carr's community meeting yesterday.  I will sum it up here but it deserves another thread of its own as it is a larger part of the discussion about the budget.

I am going to write a separate thread on the TFA testimony as it is quite telling to the discussion about ending the contract. 

Two people, Chris Jackins and me, spoke to the Board approval of the final closeout of the Garfield project.