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Maria Goodloe-Johnson

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    U.S. Chamber of Commerce Uses Seattle To Hype Business Involvment in Schools

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week issued a stinging "case study" of the Seattle School Board, characterized by the report as churning and fractious. Yet the chamber's proposed solution to school board woes--more business involvement--stirs up the very divisiveness the report laments.

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Susan Enfield: Is the Schools Superintendent Leaving Because of Board Micro-Managing?

    ​Last week, Interim Seattle Schools Superintendent Susan Enfield sent out an e-mail to principals reaffirming that walking away from the district "is the right decision for me." But why? One possibility, hinted at in a new proposed school board policy, is that micro-managing board members drov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    State Auditor Finds Meddling Over School Building Sale From Unexpected Corners

    ​The state Auditor's Office yesterday put the kabosh on long-simmering rumors that Fred Stephens, a former Seattle Schools manager who now works for the U.S. Department of Commerce, used his influence to get the district to sell a surplussed school to his own church. The auditor's 16-page repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Ingraham High Affair Shows the District Is Measuring the Wrong Things

    ​Interim Seattle Schools Superintendent Susan Enfield is getting kudos for reversing her firing of Ingraham High's popular principal Martin Floe. "It's a brave and wise leader who admits a mistake," writes the often fierce district critic Melissa Westbrook on the Save Seattle Schools blog. Tru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    News Flash: Susan Enfield Is NOT Closing Rainier Beach High School (But Is Shaking Things Up)

    ​We get press releases all the time that trumpet news big and small, but rarely do they announce news that is not happening. Yesterday, however, Seattle Public Schools sent out a release with this startling declaration: Rainier Beach High School is not closing. At least not next year.

  • News

    March 9, 2011

    Seattle Schools' Silver Lining

    The upside to firing former Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson.

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    Seattle Schools' Shrillest Critics May Be Part of the Problem

    ​At last night's Seattle School Board meeting, longtime district critic Don Alexander took to the podium and excoriated the board for what it was about to do, namely fire Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson. "This is a lynching!" he shouted. His defense of the superintendent, and resort to r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Maria Goodloe-Johnson's Firing Is Two Years Late; Will School Board Please Fire Itself, too?

    ​So what is the cutoff for incompetence? In Maria Goodloe-Johnson's case, apparently $1.8 million. That's the amount cited by the state auditor that was questionably and wastefully spent--maybe just plain ripped-off--right under the Seattle schools superintendent's nose. The phony contracting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    The Silver Lining of Seattle Schools' Financial Scandal

    ​So now we're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy out schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, who is expected to be shown the door at this evening's school board meeting. And, this fall, when the board starts searching for a permanent replacement, we'll quite likely spend th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Fred Stephens, Former Seattle Schools Supervisor, Faces Questions from the Blogosphere About Another Financial Deal

    ​As if the Seattle school district wasn't battling enough of a scandal, the blogosphere has raised additional questions about Fred Stephens. He's the man, you'll remember, who ineptly supervised Silas Potter, the apparent scam artist who allegedly wasted $1.8 million of district money on an il ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Mike McGinn Proposes to Double the City's Education Funding; Is He Also After More Control?

    ​Every mayor wants to be the "education mayor," just as every governor wants to be the hero who will save the public schools. So perhaps it's no surprise, even in this time of government austerity, that Mayor Mike McGinn is seeking to double the amount of city funding for schools in a renewed ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Maria Goodloe-Johnson, Despite Budget Shortfall, Favors Community Spirit Over Cash in Selling Martin Luther King Elementary

    ​The Seattle School District, projecting a $32.8 million budget gap for the next school year, is as strapped for cash as every other public entity these days. So you might think that the district would get as much money as it possibly can later this year when it unloads the old Martin Luther E ... More >>

  • 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 8, 2010

    Maria Goodloe-Johnson Gets Another Year But Faces New Criticism from School Board Members

    ​As expected, the Seattle School Board last night extended Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson's contract by another year, giving her until 2012 to serve as chief of the district. What was surprising, though, was the dissent on the board, which has often seemed oblivious to the growing dissat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    State Auditor's Office Says District Misused $1.8 Million--and That's Not All

    ​In a 44-page report released today, the state auditor's office told the Seattle School District it should "familiarize" itself with the law and regulations it is governed by. Why? Because the district seems unable to follow so many of them, apparently. "In all of the areas we examined, we fou ... More >>

  • News

    June 23, 2010

    Why Do Teachers Hate Goodloe-Johnson?

    The no-confidence votes may be more about fears of national policy shifts.

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Schools Chief Maria Goodloe-Johnson Faces Biggest No-Confidence Vote Yet, But Why?

    ​For weeks, teachers at a sweep of Seattle schools have been voting to express no confidence in Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson. Now, the teachers union as a whole is poised to vote on the matter, following a resolution introduced to the Seattle Education Association last night. Hundreds ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Schools Chief Maria Goodloe-Johnson Heads into Board Evaluation on the Heels of Scathing Surveys

    Contemptuous and heartless?​Is Seattle Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson in for a drubbing tomorrow? The school board will hear a report from a local consulting company that summarizes what individual board members have said about the superintendent in one-on-one interviews, as w ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2010

    SPS Teacher Contract Negotiations Make for Unlikely Enemies

    Contemptuous and heartless?​Is Seattle Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson in for a drubbing tomorrow? The school board will hear a report from a local consulting company that summarizes what individual board members have said about the superintendent in one-on-one interviews, as w ... 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 26, 2010

    Schools Decide Not to Limit Parent Tours After All

    Hamilton International School originally said it would hold one tour but has now scheduled four​A few weeks ago, schools around the city were saying they were going to cut back this year on tours that allowed parents to see classrooms in action. Tours were "disruptive," the district and at lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Reader: Cleveland High School Will Succeed Because of New Students, Not New Plan

    FlickrMaria Goodloe-Johnson's success will have little to do with a cash infusion and new game plan, says a reader.​Reader Charlie Mas responds to Will Cleveland High School Become Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson's Crown Jewel or Albatross? Charlie says Cleveland High School's success wil ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    Reform School

    Will the $4 million STEM finally bring accountability to Cleveland High?

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Supe Ducks--With the District in a $42 Million Budget Hole, She'll Donate Her Bonus to Charity

    Maria Goodloe-Johnson already makes more than the governor.​Moments after the Seattle Public School Board approved a $5,200 bonus for Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson last night, the schools chief announced that she was donating the money to charity. (She didn't specify which.) She was obv ... More >>

  • News

    November 25, 2009

    The Silent Supe: Due for a Bonus?

    It’s a recession, she just got a raise, and critics say hers is still an unfamiliar face.

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    School Board Proposes Yet More Money for Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson

    flickrGoodloe-Johnson, shown here accepting a gift at a Seattle Goodwill breakfast, has been much less visible during the controversy over the district's neighborhood schools plan​As the Seattle Public School Board approved a landmark new assignment plan last night, it also introduced a propos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    The Costly Seattle Schools Shuffle

    ​A thoughtful, well-crafted new schools blog, Seattle Education 2010, raises questions about just what, exactly, city school leaders have in mind in the reassignment of students, schools and tax revenues. The strategy of "closing five school buildings, shuffling students to different schools a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Principal Will Transfer Despite Discrimination Suit

    Goodloe-Johnson​The transfer of Seattle principal Beverly Raines from Brighton to Lawton elementary schools will go ahead this fall even though Raines tried to stop the move in federal court. In a suit that has been quietly proceeding in U.S. District Court since February, Raines sought a prel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    Ask the Super

    It's not every day that a high-ranking city official drops in on the netizens for a live chat, but that's what Seattle Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson will be doing at the P-I in a few hours. (The chat runs from 11:30 - 12:30, but you can submit your questions ahead of time.) Goodloe-Jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    School Board To Give Mixed Review to Supe

    Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson will hear the school board's evaluation of her this afternoon at a closed executive session of the board. Last year, the new superintendent got a glowing report and a hefty raise that brought her salary up to $264,000--more than the governo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Cheryl Chow Calls It Quits

    Seattle School board member Cheryl Chow announced today that she will not run for reelection this fall. Chow, a former City Council member, wasn't known as the most inspirational leader when she ascended to the school board, and her platform was vague. But her heart seemed in the right place, and sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Tone It Down, Teachers

    Boy, the fight over the Seattle School District's bid to cut one day of paid teacher training sure seems like a tempest in a teapot--undeserving of the front-page coverage it is getting. Sure, Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson's letter to teachers was supremely clumsy bureaucratese, something the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Book Warz

    Not a hot time for school news. Over at the P-I, Joel Connelly takes a look at UW Prez Mark Emmert's complaints that the legislature gutted the UW this year--resulting, of course, in big tuition increases. It'll be the first time in state history, Emmert notes, that tuition moneys will exceed state ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Thurgood Marshall Principal May Go

    The Seattle Public School Board will finally decide tomorrow which schools will close and which students will be moved where. The board, which has tinkered with Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson's recommendations, just released all the proposals that are up for a vote. Some parents and teache ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Schools Open Their Doors for Inauguration

    School projector screens tuned in to KCTS coverage I was lucky enough to score one of the best seats in the city to watch the inauguration-- at my daughters' elementary school. Like many schools throughout town, both public and private, my daughters' opened their doors early this morning and invi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    Questions Remain in Final School Closure Recommendations

    APP students might be moving to Thurgood Marshall ElementarySeattle Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson made her final recommendations for school closures last night. Probably the most unsettling idea that remains on her list is the splitting up of elementary and middle students in the Acce ... 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 10, 2008

    School District's Letter to Parents Already Outdated

    Hawthorne Elementary, one of the schools on the latest closure list.Yesterday, like many parents of Seattle Public School children, I received a mailing from the district outlying proposed school closures and relocations -- the ones, that is, that were recommended two weeks ago. Since then, Superint ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    School Closure Bombshells

    Students at Summit K-12The bombshells in last night's four-hour-plus meeting on Seattle Public School closures were the proposals for Summit K-12 and Lowell Elementary. Summit, an alternative school, would move from the very north of the city to the very south, to be relocated in Rainier Beach High ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2008

    The Supe's Raise

    Students at Summit K-12The bombshells in last night's four-hour-plus meeting on Seattle Public School closures were the proposals for Summit K-12 and Lowell Elementary. Summit, an alternative school, would move from the very north of the city to the very south, to be relocated in Rainier Beach High ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2008

    Supe to Unveil Five-Year Plan

    Students at Summit K-12The bombshells in last night's four-hour-plus meeting on Seattle Public School closures were the proposals for Summit K-12 and Lowell Elementary. Summit, an alternative school, would move from the very north of the city to the very south, to be relocated in Rainier Beach High ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2007

    Lessons from Cleveland High

    Students at Summit K-12The bombshells in last night's four-hour-plus meeting on Seattle Public School closures were the proposals for Summit K-12 and Lowell Elementary. Summit, an alternative school, would move from the very north of the city to the very south, to be relocated in Rainier Beach High ... More >>

  • News

    September 19, 2007

    District Puts South End Schools on Notice—by Giving Them a Couple of Million Dollars

    Rainier Beach High School, Cleveland High School, and Aki Kurose Middle School have been plagued by declining enrollment and mediocre test scores.

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2007

    AP For All High-School Students

    Rainier Beach High School, Cleveland High School, and Aki Kurose Middle School have been plagued by declining enrollment and mediocre test scores.

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2007

    New Supe's Photo-Op Tours

    Rainier Beach High School, Cleveland High School, and Aki Kurose Middle School have been plagued by declining enrollment and mediocre test scores.

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