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West Seattle Weather Watch: Monday morning post-snow updates
(CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO THE NEWEST UPDATE; SCHOOL STATUS: SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, OPEN ON TIME, RUNNING REGULAR BUS ROUTES; VASHON SCHOOLS 2-HR DELAY FOR POWER OUTAGE)
ORIGINAL 4 AM POST: We’ll be on the live-update beat in the 5 am hour, but we’re setting this up sooner so you can start checking the latest commute [...]
West Seattle school-closure fight: Online petition drive
Next Tuesday, Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Maria Goodloe-Johnson is scheduled to announce her “final recommendations” for which school programs and buildings should be closed in the current closure process; a final round of meetings and hearings will ensue, with a final School Board vote projected on Jan. 29. As previously reported, the current form [...]
West Seattle school-closure fight: Citywide meeting tonight
In the middle of Snowstorm ‘08, we published an update on the school-closure process, which is proceeding AS SCHEDULED, the district reiterates, despite some changes and cancellations because of the weather. If you missed that update - read it here; it includes links to the official transcript from the 12/16 Genesee Hill school-closure hearing, and [...]
West Seattle school-closure fight: District updates
The winter storm slammed Seattle right in the middle of what already was a hectic, stressful process: Seattle Public Schools trying to get through a blizzard of hearings related to the plan to close half a dozen or so schools. Some got canceled because of the weather. We checked earlier today with Patti Spencer on [...]
West Seattle snow: School-closure meetings canceled tonight
In addition to the Design Review Board meeting cancellation we mentioned earlier, we have just received word that the Cooper Elementary school-closure meeting tonight IS ALSO CANCELED - no new date set yet. Seattle Public Schools also sent word that the Lowell Elementary hearing is canceled too; APP (top-level gifted program) families citywide would have [...]
Video: Defending West Seattle schools at board meeting
That’s Molly Gras-Usry, one of two Cooper Elementary parents who spoke to the Seattle School Board Wednesday night during the public-comment period that started the board’s regular meeting. Tonight, Cooper has its own meeting with a district official (7 pm @ Cooper) - but Wednesday, it was a chance to address the board. The other [...]
West Seattle school-closure fight: School board updates
We’re at district HQ for tonight’s school board meeting, where speakers during the public-comment period are scheduled to include people on behalf of Cooper Elementary, Pathfinder K-8, and Arbor Heights Elementary, the three West Seattle schools that have been involved in the closure proposals so far. Also, Superintendent Dr. Maria Goodloe-Johnson is scheduled to present [...]
School-closure fight: Tonight?s School Board meeting IS on
Just mentioned this in our ongoing weather-related-coverage post, but wanted to note it separately too, since hundreds of families around West Seattle are affected by the ongoing school-closure process (WSB coverage archived here): We have just reconfirmed with Seattle Public Schools that, even though schools are closed districtwide today, tonight’s School Board meeting, 6 pm [...]
West Seattle school-closure hearing: Cooper makes its case
By Tracy Record
West Seattle Blog editor
40 speakers, 3 schools, 2 school board members. Those are the numbers from last night’s school-closure public hearing at the Genesee Hill Elementary building that Pathfinder K-8 has called home for almost 15 years. And numbers were the reason the hearing had to happen at all - a $24 million-$37 [...]
School-closure fight: District message about tonight?s hearing
From Bridgett Chandler, communications boss at Seattle Public Schools, about tonight’s big school-closure hearing at Genesee Hill Elementary/Pathfinder:
Dear community members,
We want to thank those of you who have signed up to testify at tonight’s
public hearing and those who wish to attend. The weather has created
concerns about safety, and we send this information to [...]
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