Monthly Archives: February 2009

Don’t hang a closed sign on Seattle Public Schools

By Jesse | Published: February 27, 2009
Special to The Seattle Times – by Jesse D. Hagopian and Andre Helmstetter http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008722355_opinb09hagopian.html Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson and five School Board members have enrolled the city’s schools in a course titled “Closing Schools for Excellence.” We have been instructed that the closures of five schools and disruption or discontinuation of eight additional programs are fiscally [...]
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ESP Vision in the News

By Jesse | Published: February 26, 2009
Seattle Times (6/4/09): “Seattle school layoffs denounced at rally” http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2009298324_schoolrally04… Eat The State (1/22/09): “Madness to their Method?” http://eatthestate.org/13-10/Madnesstotheir.htm Seattle PI (2/26/09): “Seattle parents, NAACP cry racism over school closures” http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/401643_naacp27.html King 5 (2/26/09): “March, rally against Seattle school closures” http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_022609WAB-school-closure-rally…
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