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To: SilentZ who wrote (736577)	9/2/2013 12:57:41 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1579124

Note that that column never mentions why the teachers actually would strike.. Its actually more about benefits than salary. Late Sunday, they reached an agreement and it goes up for vote tomorrow with all the teachers. What excites me most is the complete turn around the district is experiencing. About 10-15 years ago, the district began to renovate its older schools esp the ones in poorer neighborhoods. They also established AP programs in those schools drawing kids from all over the city. One of the HS.......Garfield.......which is located in a black neighborhood......was where I first heard Obama speak. Nonetheless, up until three years ago, the school district was mothballing schools left and right. Seattle ranked as the city with the highest percentage of kids going to private schools. That began to change a couple of years before the recession but most thought it was a fluke. Then the recession hit and more parents began sending their kids to public schools. The first schools were taken out of mothballs about three years ago. Another mothballed school will be opening this fall. Now there is talk of building a new elementary school downtown to accommodate all the children there. The most important part of course is the turnaround in test scores.......esp among low income kids. That's what so amazing and what is causing more parents to pull their kids out of private school and sending them to public schools. Every kid on my street except two is now in public school. Several of them are in AP and will attend Garfield HS which is a ten mile ride on two buses. I am hoping that Seattle becomes a template for other cities in the country. Screw charter and private schools..........we need to bring our public school system back to where it was.