Posted on 05/18/2006 11:41:43 AM PDT by george76
A sweeping reorganization of Seattle Public Schools began Wednesday night when a citizens panel recommended that nine schools close, five programs relocate and two schools merge.
The closures, which are estimated to save $4.8 million annually, have been proposed both as a means to help close a multimillion-dollar budget deficit in the coming years, and to address declining enrollment.
Seattle Public Schools enrolls 47,000 students less than half the number it had 40 years ago but operates 99 buildings, three-fourths what it had in 1965.
The district hasn't closed a school since 1989.
In all, 12 buildings would close. Of those, three school programs would move to other buildings in their entirety...
Students at the remaining nine schools would be dispersed to other schools.
This is Seattle Public Schools' second attempt in a year to close and consolidate elementary schools. Manhas withdrew a similar plan last year after it drew major opposition from the public.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
I believe it was Kirby who stated that there are now more DOGS in Seattle than children... (But the libs keep treating their "pets" like "kids.") Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
More liberal psychosis on this at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw05142006/2002974751_pacificpdogs14.html. Sounds almost like the author of the article is proud of the fact!
The are brushing their teeth and heading to bed by 8pm. Yes, it was during regular hours.
As Rush admitted today, an alternate universe...
Same as in FriscanSanto and in Old Europe. Liberal-socialists are sterile and impotent losers. Children are not part of their future, per God and Charles Darwin.
Go figure, gays and computer programmers don't have kids. (Hey, there's a reason they named it UNIX.)
"Yale admits former Taliban ambassador as student."
What? Yale is soooo backwards. At Harvard, he'd be chairman of the History department by now!
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