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In a neighboring suburb. Major Update: Tonight (Thursday night [March 9th]) the Bellevue Math Adoption Committee voted to adopt Holt instead of the Discovering Math series. This is extraordinary good news and one can assume that school board will fol...

topics: bellevue, committee, school-board, suburb

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Hey Itawamba County School Board& way to assure that this kid gets the shit beaten out of her by her fellow students:A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a sam...

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Omari Tahir-Garrett, best known for assaulting former Mayor Paul Schell with a bullhorn, also has a reputation for harassing school board members at their meetings. He had to be restrained......

topics: mayor, school-board

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King County Superior Court Judge Julie Spector ordered the Seattle School Board to revisit its decision to use the Discovering Series math textbooks, calling the Board's decision to use them arbitrary and capricious . Meanwhile over in Kirkland, s...

topics: government, kirkland, school-board

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Last week, Danny Westneat said that critics of new math were throwing a Hail Mary by trying to get a judge to tell the school board to buy new text books. Today their prayers were answer... Continue reading Judge Rejects Seattle...

topics: books, school-board

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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 ch... Continue reading Supe Ducks--With the ...

topics: charity, school-board

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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 ch... Continue reading The Supe Ducks--With ...

topics: charity, school-board

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The Seattle School Board has one employee, the Superintendent. Currently that is Dr. Maria Goodloe-Johnson. Is she worth $264,000 in base salary plus $28,400 of other compensation plus bonuses? Apparently so since that is the pay package the School B...

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The Alki Foundation, the political wing of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, just issued their recommendations for the general election. None of the group's initial picks for mayor (Nickels and Drago) or King County Executive (Phillips and Jar...

topics: alki, business, candidate, city-council, conservative

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From Politico:The White House says Obama's address is a sort of pep talk for the nation's schoolchildren. But conservative commentators have criticized Obama for trying to indoctrinate students to his liberal beliefs, and some parents call it a...

topics: conservative, democrat, government, liberal, obama