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  • News

    November 16, 2011

    Seattle School Board Stays Put

    Why voters chose to leave the bums in.

  • Calendar

    June 8, 2011

    PNB School Performance & Next Step

    Why voters chose to leave the bums in.

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Susan Enfield, Starting to Backtrack on Ingraham High Firing, Should Keep Going

    ​UPDATE: Enfiled is backtracking completely. According to a just-released statement, she will renew Floe's contract. Details after the jump. Interim Schools Superintendent Susan Enfield seems to be opening the door to reversing her firing of popular Ingraham High Principal Martin Floe. "At th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Rainier Beach High School's Students Can Go to College--So Why Don't They?

    ​Late last week, Seattle Public Schools released new figures showing that it had vastly underestimated the number of students qualified to attend a four-year college. The figures--a correction of a correction--made the district's high schools look a lot better, particularly Rainier Beach High. ... More >>

  • News

    November 17, 2010

    The Data Queen

    Superintendent Goodloe-Johnson crunches the numbers.

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Maria Goodloe-Johnson Delivers Major Speech and Cements Her Legacy: Data

    ​Seattle Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson gave her first ever "state of the district" address last night. Undoubtedly, it was an attempt to alleviate the her public relations problem. The superintendent has faced sharp criticism in recent parent surveys, suffered no-confidence vote ... More >>

  • News

    September 29, 2010

    Performance-Pay for Teachers Gets Maligned

    But the Seattle School District insists its new contract offers something different.

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    New Study Pours Cold Water on Performance Pay for Teachers, Just After Seattle Schools Made It Part of the New Contract

    ​Vanderbilt University released a new study yesterday that deflates one of the trendiest ideas in education reform: performance pay. After a three-year experiment in the Nashville school district, in which teachers were eligible for up to $15,000 in extra pay if their students scored well on t ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2010

    Scoring the Teachers

    Bad student test results could lead to more meddling from the boss.

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    Teachers Union: Test Scores Will Not Be Used in Official Evaluations

    ​ UPDATE: The Seattle Education Association voted tonight to approve a contract that allows teachers to be judged for the first time on student test scores, even if such judgments are not considered part of formal staff evaluations. The union also voted to express no confidence in Superintende ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Maria Goodloe-Johnson, Pushing New Way to Evaluate Teachers, Draws Yet More Ire

    ​Locked in battle with the Seattle School District during contract negotiations, teachers plan to rally before a school board meeting this evening at district headquarters. Their beef: the district's proposal to use student test scores in teacher evaluations. Like anything with the district, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Bill Gates Tries the Dad Approach With Angry Teachers Union Members

    ​At the national American Federation of Teachers convention held in Seattle over the past week, union president Randi Weingarten acknowledged the anger many teachers feel over an education reform effort that is sweeping the country. She chastised what she called the "blame the teacher crowd," ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2010

    SPS Teacher Contract Negotiations Make for Unlikely Enemies

    ​At the national American Federation of Teachers convention held in Seattle over the past week, union president Randi Weingarten acknowledged the anger many teachers feel over an education reform effort that is sweeping the country. She chastised what she called the "blame the teacher crowd," ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Teachers Union Bristles at New Coalition's Effort to Muscle In on Contract Negotiations

    A new coalition wants the district to weed out bad teachers.​Contract negotiations began this week between Seattle Public Schools and the teachers union, and the atmosphere is already getting testy--but not between the parties you might expect. Seattle Education Association president Olga Adda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    With Federal Cash in the Balance, the Teachers Union Recalibrates its Position on Reform

    The governor avoided teacher protests like this one by wooing the WEA​Yesterday, Governor Chris Gregoire unveiled a series of proposed education reforms that, in days past, the state teachers union would have almost certainly opposed. They include mandated state intervention for struggling sch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    Teachers Vent Their Anger Over Cuts

    The Washington Education Association held a press conference yesterday in an attempt to sound the alarm about the roughly $2 billion of cuts in education funding likely to be approved by the Legislature this session. The union says the cuts will be devastating and cost 5,000 jobs, but so far it's ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Brandon Roy 4-Eva

    Husky fans love Brandon RoyBrandon Roy is the best player in Husky basketball history. He was also the best player on the Lorenzo Romar teams that re-established the UW as a basketball school. Fittingly, he'll see his his #3 jersey retired at tonight's game. He'll be only the second Husky to have hi ... More >>

  • News

    January 7, 2009

    Bypass Fail

    No Child Left Behind was supposed to shut down or "restructure" failing schools. A Seattle middle school shows that's largely an empty threat.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    A Moment of Respect for Rainier Beach

    It's no surprise that the Seattle Public School district is now talking about effectively closing Rainier Beach High by merging it with Cleveland. The specter of a possible closure has been looming over Rainier Beach for years as its enrollment has dropped ever further and its academic performance h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2007

    Their Problem With The Supe

    It's no surprise that the Seattle Public School district is now talking about effectively closing Rainier Beach High by merging it with Cleveland. The specter of a possible closure has been looming over Rainier Beach for years as its enrollment has dropped ever further and its academic performance h ... More >>

  • News

    November 15, 2006

    Board Stiffs

    Is the 'crisis' faced by the Seattle School District enough to abandon board elections?

  • News

    November 23, 2005

    The Stress Test

    Choose all that apply: (a) The WASL was intended to improve schools and pupil performance. (b) It's become an unhealthy obsession among teachers, parents, and students. (c) The WASL inspires alarming anxiety among 9-year-olds. (d) It's actually stultifying public education.

  • News

    July 20, 2005

    Bill Gates' Guinea Pigs

    The Gates Foundation wants to remake American education, and ground zero for their billion-dollar experiment is Mountlake Terrace High School. Results so far? It's been a learning experience.

  • News

    May 25, 2005

    Time to Pitch In

    It's easy to dislike a plan to close schools, but who's got a better idea to save $20 million? Possibly lots of people.

  • News

    August 11, 2004

    Election Test

    The debate over high-stakes testing dominates this year's race for superintendent of public instruction.

  • News

    October 29, 2003

    Class Dismissed

    Cranky voters could transform the Seattle School Board overnight.

  • News

    August 21, 2002

    What Can Money Buy?

    As millionaire Stuart Sloan adopts a second school, test scores are beginning to come in for his first—and they aren't good.

  • News

    May 1, 2002

    Test parents now

    As millionaire Stuart Sloan adopts a second school, test scores are beginning to come in for his first—and they aren't good.

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    In Stanford We Trust

    The charismatic chief brings vision and energy to Seattle's schools. But has he done what he claims? And will he see the job through?

  • News

    March 11, 1998

    Affirmative Reaction

    Whether or not Initiative 200 passes, the legal bell is tolling for race-based preferences. What kind of university will that leave us?

  • News

    February 25, 1998

    In Stanford We Trust

    The charismatic chief brings vision and energy to Seattle's schools. But has he done what he claims? And will he see the job through?

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