tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649338642905686469.post1853694910773272115..comments2024-02-28T22:24:07.299-08:00Comments on Community Forum for HCC (APP) in Seattle Schools: Student Assignment Plan Proposal Eliminates HCC PathwaysAndrew Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06830585083467140758noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649338642905686469.post-49094168644913477042015-11-14T13:31:05.710-08:002015-11-14T13:31:05.710-08:00There is a new updated version of the assignment p...There is a new updated version of the assignment plan at: <br /><br />http://www.seattleschools.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_543/File/District/Departments/School%20Board/15-16agendas/111815agenda/20151118_Action_Report_Student_Assign_Transition_Plan_Packet.pdf<br /><br />Benjamin Leishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974191081762367425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649338642905686469.post-20944101664112021902015-11-02T08:01:44.109-08:002015-11-02T08:01:44.109-08:00A Cascadia parent told me that on Sunday the Casca...A Cascadia parent told me that on Sunday the Cascadia PTSA sent a Call To Action to families yesterday with this example letter:<br /><br />Dear School Board Directors and Dr. Nyland,<br /><br />The SPS community deserves to have sufficient time to process and discuss significant changes in the redlined Student Assignment Plan (SAP).<br /><br />I am writing to request that you remove "Approval of the Student Assignment Plan" action from the School Board's action items on the November 4 agenda. The redlined version that SPS staff just released highlights drastic changes. This redlined version of the changes were not discussed in SPS's public meetings, which were advertised as "Growth Boundaries Community Meetings" and not assignment plan meetings. The meeting notices talked about boundary changes in West Seattle and nowhere else.<br /><br />These redlined proposed changes will affect all Seattle public school students. The school board, operations committee, and the public have not had an opportunity to give input on these drastic redlined proposed changes. I request that you remove it from the agenda and send it back to the appropriate school board committee for review and discussion, and hold the required and appropriate public meetings.<br /><br />--JvAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649338642905686469.post-52887467362118606042015-11-01T12:35:23.006-08:002015-11-01T12:35:23.006-08:00Along with a former APP/HCC parent and numbers exp...Along with a former APP/HCC parent and numbers expert Meg Diaz, Kellie is a verifiable expert in numbers and capacity matters in our district. I first came to know her in '08, during the initial closures and APP splits, and would vouch for anything she says as well-researched, well-grounded, and as objective and stone-cold real as any stats or figures you'll ever here about in our district. <br /><br />Kelli also understands extremely well how gimmicks and tricks are used to balance capacity in SPS, particularly using the HCC cohorts either to fill up a school as a magnet program, or free up seats in a school by splitting or moving the program because of some falsified criticism of the program as unfair, elitist, etc. <br /><br />The only certain thing about changes to HCC programs is that they have nothing to do with reality. And you can take that to the bank. <br /><br />WSDWGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649338642905686469.post-40833535931684608772015-11-01T11:31:21.230-08:002015-11-01T11:31:21.230-08:00There's some great context in this comment fro...There's some great context in this comment from Kellie at Melissa's blog:<br /><br />"IMHO, this plan is a disaster. It completely and totally removes all board oversight from the parts of the plan that matter to families and matter to work of education, inside the buildings.<br /><br />By taking all education programming out of the assignment plan and into a superintendent document, there will be NO oversight of the work of education. This new process presumes that every seat, at every school in every program is identical and any detail that makes a seat different is a central admin decision ONLY, with no review by either the board or the public.<br /><br />...<br /><br /><br />The cold-reality here ... is that this will remove all board oversight from the work of education. <br /><br />Simply having program placement as a purely Superintendent procedure has already caused the inability for the public and the board to provide input and oversight into the work of education - think the closure of middle college. Historically, the reason the growth under the choice plan was NOT visible to the board and to the public was because the continuous movement of special education "programs" from full schools to less full schools, kept it off the radar. <br /><br />This new "plan" institutionalizes that process and makes it so that staff can move any part, at any time, with no process from either the board or the public. <br /><br />It took YEARS to migrate from the old choice plan to this plan. While a too-lengthy process has its own problems, it should not take MINUTES to completely revokes the remaining elements of the choice system. "<br /><br /><a href="http://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2015/10/mayday-mayday-sos-sos.html?showComment=1446403896744&m=1#c602489559320891908" rel="nofollow">http:://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2015/10/mayday-mayday-sos-sos.html?showComment=1446403896744&m=1#c602489559320891908</a><br /><br />--JvAJuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09744386934200069300noreply@blogger.com