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1 week ago | 
seattletimes.com | Taylor Blatchford |Denisa R. Superville
Thousands of Seattleites celebrated Juneteenth and lifted up community at events and festivals Thursday, even as national leaders attack diversity initiatives and Black history. Juneteenth — combining “June” and “nineteenth” — marks the day, June 19, 1865, that formerly enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned slavery had been abolished. In 2021, Congress designated it a federal holiday.
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1 week ago | 
tri-cityherald.com | Denisa R. Superville
Seattle Public Schools' chief operations officer will serve as the district's acting superintendent until Sept. 3, a vote by the Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors confirmed Wednesday. Fred Podesta will take over for Superintendent Brent Jones, who has been on medical leave since May. Jones announced in March that he planned to leave the district Sept. 3 and recently sought to extend the leave to his last day.
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1 week ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab. Seattle Public Schools’ chief operations officer will serve as the district’s acting superintendent until Sept. 3, a vote by the Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors confirmed Wednesday.
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1 week ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab. Seattle Superintendent Brent Jones, who is on medical leave, is unlikely to returnto the district before his tenure ends on Sept. 3.
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1 week ago | 
tri-cityherald.com | Denisa R. Superville
Seattle Public Schools and the district's teachers union have reached a tentative agreement to extend the current union contract, which is set to expire at the end of August, for another year. Neither side released details of the tentative accord. But it all but guarantees there won't be a repeat of 2022, when the union went on a five-day strike.
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1 week ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab. Seattle Public Schools and the district’s teachers union have reached a tentative agreement to extend the current union contract, which is set to expire at the end of August, for another year.
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1 week ago | 
tri-cityherald.com | Denisa R. Superville
Are you a parent, student, business owner or Seattle taxpayer? Do you work for Seattle Public Schools? Do you care about the district's future? If you answered yes to any of the above, the School Board wants to hear from you. It's soliciting input about what the community wants in a new superintendent as it looks to replace Superintendent Brent Jones, whose last day is expected to be Sept. 3. Jones is on medical leave.
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2 weeks ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab. Are you a parent, student, business owner or Seattle taxpayer? Do you work for Seattle Public Schools? Do you care about the district’s future?
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2 weeks ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab. Seattle Public Schools kicks off its 2025 graduation season this week with lots of pomp — and stepped-up security.
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2 weeks ago | 
seattletimes.com | Denisa R. Superville
Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group. Learn more about Ed Lab. Teachers “freak out” when the intercom dings at Garfield High School because they fear another shelter-in-place lockdown.
