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Medved Decries Seattle's "Hip Sensibility"

Photo: Rick Dahms Just in time for Thanksgiving, if a little late for Election Day, local conservative writer and occasional film critic Michael Medved has a new book out. In fact, his The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation (Crown, $26.95) is pegged to Th ... More >>

" . . . [T]he article marginalizes people living in the neighborhoods you're promoting and perpetuates the belief that they are just one more thing to fix. . . . "

Photo: Rick Dahms Just in time for Thanksgiving, if a little late for Election Day, local conservative writer and occasional film critic Michael Medved has a new book out. In fact, his The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation (Crown, $26.95) is pegged to Th ... More >>

Board Stiffs

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

Opera Fixes Monorail

What's next, the viaduct? Plus: Lawrimore's project unveiled.

Dumbing Down Racism

What's next, the viaduct? Plus: Lawrimore's project unveiled.

Deficit Calculus

A citizens committee proposes ways to close the schools budget gap, but some factors are vague.

Tough School Choices

Asked to tackle the budget crisis, a committee offers a preview of ideas to save money. Restricting school choice is not among them, but closing buildings is.

Philanthropy, The County, Technology, Quote

Asked to tackle the budget crisis, a committee offers a preview of ideas to save money. Restricting school choice is not among them, but closing buildings is.

Media, Primary Election, Seattle Public Schools, City Hall

Asked to tackle the budget crisis, a committee offers a preview of ideas to save money. Restricting school choice is not among them, but closing buildings is.

Off Year? Off the Monorail!

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

The Kids and City Hall

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

They Choose or We Lose

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

Open and Soon Shut

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

A Defining Moment

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

A New School Principle

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

As Not Seen On TV

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

Sea Change in Seattle

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

Make It a Mandate

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

SWs Primary-Election Picks

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

State Audit: No Theft

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

Money for Nothing

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

Accounting 101

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

Back to School!

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

Racing to the bottom

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

The politics of the future

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

This Election Stinks!

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

ABC, 1,2,3

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$100,000 question

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The good, the pretty good, and the won't-hurt-ya

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

The Olchefske files

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

Stir it up, Seattle!

Seattle Weekly endorsements for the Sept. 20 primary election.

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 >>

$500K in Stolen School Supplies—and No Report

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 >>

What Do You Mean We're Opening New Schools?

At the just-finished Seattle School Board workshop releasing the proposed maps for the new assignment plan (see a description here), it was clear that board members are thinking about how they're going to explain one aspect of the plan to the public: the proposal to create new schools by reopening f ... More >>

Weighing Third-Graders: Doesn't the Fat Kid Have Enough to Worry About at School?

Had to go with a cartoon. Highlighting a real fat kid just seemed too mean.​Life as a kid is made up of a series of humiliations, one after the other, that pretty much don't end until after high school, when you finally move away from the same jerks who've been calling you names since birth. A ... More >>

School District Quietly Scales Back Tours As It Pushes Parents To Accept New Assignments

Parents will get fewer chances to see students in action​This is the time of year when Seattle Public Schools enrolls students for the fall, and normally the district offers a bevy of school tours that allow families to see classrooms in action. Not this year. Parents who look at the distri ... More >>

Schools Cut Tours

Parents will get fewer chances to see students in action​This is the time of year when Seattle Public Schools enrolls students for the fall, and normally the district offers a bevy of school tours that allow families to see classrooms in action. Not this year. Parents who look at the distri ... More >>

Reader: Students May Be Partly to Blame for District's Native American Mix-Up

Too many students may have self-identified as Native American, says our reader.​Reader Indian Educator responds to Seattle School District Likely Owes $300,000 to the Feds After Submitting False Information. "I run a similar program using funds from the same source. The program guidelines are ... More >>

School District Miscounts Little Indians

Too many students may have self-identified as Native American, says our reader.​Reader Indian Educator responds to Seattle School District Likely Owes $300,000 to the Feds After Submitting False Information. "I run a similar program using funds from the same source. The program guidelines are ... More >>