Seattle Schools This Week
Monday, November 26th
Superintendent Banda's meeting with the Latino community from 6-8 pm at El Centro de la Raza. Feedback, concerns and questions are welcome.
Tuesday, November 27th
Work Session: Strategic Plan Guiding Principles from 4:30-6:30 pm. No agenda available.
Work Session: Ethics Training from 6:45-7:45 pm. (I'm not sure who this is for - the Board or staff or both.) No agenda available.
Wednesday, November 28th
School Board meeting starting at 4:15 pm. Sign up first thing Monday morning if you want to speak. Agenda.
Action items reflect the 2013 Legislative agenda, approval of "superintendent evaluation instrument: the CSIP approvals, voting in a new Policy 1400 about Board meetings.
To note about Policy 1400, it appears the start time is to remain at 4:15 p.m. It also changes the policy that saying that any changes in the prepared agenda may be requested by the Superintendnetn or a Board member and is approved by majority vote (and redlined out is "of the Board members present." As you may remember, earlier this year there was a tussle over whether a Board vote was correct because of what constituted a "majority". So I read this as it has to be a majority of the seven members rather than the majority of who is sitting at any given meeting.
Also (green is new, red is what is out):
All votes on motions and resolutions shall be by oral roll call vote except for a vote on
Superintendent Banda's meeting with the Latino community from 6-8 pm at El Centro de la Raza. Feedback, concerns and questions are welcome.
Tuesday, November 27th
Work Session: Strategic Plan Guiding Principles from 4:30-6:30 pm. No agenda available.
Wednesday, November 28th
School Board meeting starting at 4:15 pm. Sign up first thing Monday morning if you want to speak. Agenda.
Action items reflect the 2013 Legislative agenda, approval of "superintendent evaluation instrument: the CSIP approvals, voting in a new Policy 1400 about Board meetings.
To note about Policy 1400, it appears the start time is to remain at 4:15 p.m. It also changes the policy that saying that any changes in the prepared agenda may be requested by the Superintendnetn or a Board member and is approved by majority vote (and redlined out is "of the Board members present." As you may remember, earlier this year there was a tussle over whether a Board vote was correct because of what constituted a "majority". So I read this as it has to be a majority of the seven members rather than the majority of who is sitting at any given meeting.
Also (green is new, red is what is out):
All votes on motions and resolutions shall be by oral roll call vote except for a vote on
