E10 - A Community Sunset

11/10/23 • 26 min

Rainy Day Recess

Jane and Christie cover the Seattle Public Schools board meeting on October 25th.

The community engagement committee is sunsetting after 13 meetings. They completed some "one pagers" about board-community engagement but did not finish a full plan or toolkit.
The legislative agenda for the upcoming state legislative session was introduced. Priorities include special education funding, transportation funding, supports for students of color, and allowing more capital funding to be used for operating costs.
Progress monitoring, a key part of the Student Outcomes Focused Governance model, was not done at this meeting or the prior one. The board is supposed to spend 50% of meeting time on progress monitoring.
Board directors discussed possible criteria for deciding which schools to close, including size, proximity to other schools, transportation costs, and unique programs/populations.
The next meeting on November 15th will likely include the district's plan for cutting the 2024-25 budget. The new board will join at the following meeting in December.

For sources on the facts cited in the podcast and other supporting documentation, see our show notes here.

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Jane and Christie cover the Seattle Public Schools board meeting on October 25th.

The community engagement committee is sunsetting after 13 meetings. They completed some "one pagers" about board-community engagement but did not finish a full plan or toolkit.
The legislative agenda for the upcoming state legislative session was introduced. Priorities include special education funding, transportation funding, supports for students of color, and allowing more capital funding to be used for operating costs.
Progress monitoring, a key part of the Student Outcomes Focused Governance model, was not done at this meeting or the prior one. The board is supposed to spend 50% of meeting time on progress monitoring.
Board directors discussed possible criteria for deciding which schools to close, including size, proximity to other schools, transportation costs, and unique programs/populations.
The next meeting on November 15th will likely include the district's plan for cutting the 2024-25 budget. The new board will join at the following meeting in December.

For sources on the facts cited in the podcast and other supporting documentation, see our show notes here.

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Rainy Day Recess - E10 - A Community Sunset

Transcript

Episode 10 - Community Sunset
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[00:00:00] Christie Robertson: Welcome to the Seattle Hall Pass podcast, bringing you news and conversations about Seattle Public Schools. This week we are reporting on the school board meeting that happened a couple of weeks ago on October 25th. My name is Christie Robertson.
[00:00:15] Jane Tunks Demel: And I'm Jane Tunks Demel. And we delayed releasing this episode for a couple weeks because, whoosh, the election! That was kind of a rollercoaster