The Seattle School District hosting 3 community meetings in September on the BEX IV levy which proposes to build a new K8 school on the Thornton Creek Elementary property. Read More …
Sorry for this last minute notice. But, parents from around the City are meeting tonight, from 7-8:30PM at the Bryant Elementary library to discuss planning how to increase the number of students walking and biking to schools. This discussion builds on the success demonstrated already at Bryant Elementary which has lifted the percentage of students biking to school in from 11% in 2007 to 33% in 2011. For more information, visit the Walk.Bike.Schools! website.
The School District is hosting a community meeting tonight (11/29) from 6PM-7:30PM at Eckstein Middle School to discuss their capacity management planning. Let us know if you plan on live-tweeting from the meeting so we can follow along. Read More …
Every Wednesday in November is “Zaw School Days.” Buy up to $20 and Zaw will cut a check for $5 to your favorite NE Seattle school. Delicious, local, sustainable, and now giving back to local schools. Read More …
Due to high enrollment, the school district is proposing to add 11 new portables to the Eckstein Service Area, including 4 portables over 4 years at Thornton Creek Elementary. Read More …
The Nathan Hale High School Foundation is throwing a party on AND YOU’RE INVITED this coming Saturday, October 15th from 10AM – 1PM. To celebrate the completion of the school’s new building, the NHHS Foundation is inviting the community to tour the new building and reconnect with friends, neighbors, staff, and alumni. More information on the celebration can be found HERE. Consider this your formal invitation. On Behalf of the Nathan Hale High School Foundation I welcome you: our neighbors, parents, students, alumni, current and former staff to the All Community Celebration. We celebrate the completion of what is a Read More …
Senator Scott White (D-46) is hosting a town hall meeting next Tuesday, September 13th, from 6-8pm at Nathan Hale’s Performing Arts Center. The town hall will focused on education and funding for education with a panel chalk full of experts in the field, such as Randy Dorn, Washington Superintendent of Public Education; Lauren McGuire, Seattle Council PTSA; and Susan Einfield, Seattle Public Schools Interim Superintendent. Click HERE for the official flyer. Senator White is from Wedgwood and recently spoke at the WCC’s general meeting.
The Wedgwood View blog, as well as other local blogs, have shared important information regarding a survey that the Seattle Public School District is hosting over kindergarten school services and funding. Uncomfortable budget cuts are occurring across the State and the public school districts are no different with a $35 million budget gap. Therefore, they are considering an increase to the monthly rate for full-time kindergarten from $207 to $310 ($103 raise, 50% increase) as a step to address this gap. It doesn’t appear that the School District has provided a lot of time to gather information, however. Survey results Read More …
The Seattle School District recently released the report card for all of the schools within the district. All of the schools were scored 1-5 (1 the lowest and 5 the highest) based on a multi-faceted scoring system that looks at absolute performance and growth performance, not just test scores. Schools that were scored a 5 had a high absolute performance and high growth performance. In total, 12 schools received this honor including Thornton Creek, Wedgwood, and View Ridge. That means 40% of the top schools are right here in the Wedgwood-area! Due to these high rankings, Wedgwood-area schools will have Read More …