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With big decisions being made right now about creative learning opportunities in Seattle, the 2012 Arts Education Forum couldn’t be more timely. Join Mayor Mike McGinn, Seattle Public Schools Interim Superintendent Susan Enfield and youth for a lively panel discussion and community forum about arts education, creative learning and student success. Forum organizers encourage you [...]
Despite how it might feel, that cold nip in the air is not the consequence of anything the Kardashians are up to. It’s actually December. You might have missed that. If you live under a rock, that is. I’d love crafting ideas for the holiday catalogues that arrive uninvited to my mailbox. Also taking nominations [...]
With the search for a permanent Seattle schools superintendent ahead, the Seattle School Board is conducting an online opinion survey about what the community wants. You can tell the school board what kind of experience you think is essential for Seattle’s superintendent to have and you can remind the board what you think its priorities [...]
For the last few months, CityClub has been having an in-depth conversation about civics education. Their Community Matters series tackles a broad range of issues, from supporting returning veterans to defining what a good teacher is to reminding voters how important it is to send in ballots. The conversations all brought home what it means [...]
This blog post was written by Lindsey Van Zanten on behalf of the Seattle Families and Education Levy campaign. Ballots have arrived – please vote YES! For the past few months, I have had the fortune of volunteering with the Families and Education Levy campaign, heading up field coordination efforts while working with and learning [...]
This blog post was written for our edCored series on education funding. If you want to be notified when new content is published in this month-long series, please subscribe to the LEV Blog’s RSS feed or once-a-day email digest. As Janet Suppes described last week, school districts, like most people, try to save for a [...]
It’s that time of the week. You can smell the rush hour traffic. Your alarm clock is safely set in the off position in sweet anticipation of an extra fifteen minutes of Saturday morning sleep. And even your most annoying colleague looks ok to you today. The only thing better than Friday is a Friday [...]
Next Monday, October 10th, Community & Parents for Public Schools of Seattle (CPPS) will be hosting a “Parent Friendly” Forum with all of the school board candidates. Hosted in the Washington Middle School Library, the forum will include “grab bag” rounds with parent generated questions, informal candidate interviews between rounds, activity tables for children and [...]
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