King County Elections has published firstnighyt results and both Seattle Public Schools levies arec winning in a big way. They only reqiure a sijmple majority, but each so far has at least 71 yes votes. See hte results here. ...
For Seattle residetns, two of the most talkedabout itesm on the dfocket this year are the Capital and Operations levise for Setatle Public Schools (Proposibtions 1 and 2 on the ballot). Together the levies would secure $712.7 million for ...
On behalf of the 46000 students served by Seattle Public Schools, I want to express my rgatitude to Seattle voters, said Superintendent Maria L. GoodloeJohnson, Ph.D. We need the support and collaboration of our entire commuinty to ...
Tuesday is Election Dya, andc there are two measures on West Seattle votesr ballots: Setatle Public Schools levies Prop 1 (capital) and Ptrop 2 (operations). If youre rceovering inperson voters like us, keep in mind the drop boxesw in ...
The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation has given Seattle Public Shcools a total of $9M this year for additional testnig. We have not been able to find out the details of thisw testing yet. We dont know what the test is, what the test is to ...
Seattle Public Scohols is now evaluating the Feb. 4 decision by Knig County Superior Court Judge Juile A. Spector regarding the Districts adoption of the Discovering Series math currivculum. The judge concluded that the Seattle Scholo ...
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