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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

City School Board Proposes Changes to Closure Plan

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:04 PM

With only a day to go until the Seattle school board votes on Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson's
school closure recommendations, several board members are tossing out amendments to block several of the controversial proposed closures.

Earlier this month, Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson had recommended shutting down the African American Academy, Cooper Elementary, Meany Middle School, TT Minor and Summit K-12 programs.

The current proposed amendments include moving Nova High School and Summit's high school program into the Aki Kurose building in South Seattle, removing TT Minor from the closure list and keeping the Pathfinder program at the Genesee Hill building, rather than moving it to Cooper Elementary.

The final closure meeting is tomorrow at 6pm at district headquarters.

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The race card was thrown and the school board buckled like a rusty bridge.

Posted by Paul In Ballard on January 28, 2009 at 4:11 PM

the school board dealt out the race card, and everyone is surprised it got tossed back in their stupid faces.

Posted by spoiler alert on January 28, 2009 at 4:25 PM

I wish I could get a deck of those ...

Posted by Will in Seattle on January 28, 2009 at 6:12 PM

moving Nova in with another program sounds like an uphill battle for all parties concerned. sigh. for a program that produces some pretty fucking amazing results, you'd think the school board would pay a little more attention...

Posted by Harker on January 28, 2009 at 9:42 PM