Agenda – FINAL Post 9/18/24
Regular Board Meeting
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 4:15 p.m.

Board of Directors
2445 – 3rd Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98134
206-252-0040
Seattle Public Schools

The meeting will be live streamed on SPSTV and broadcast on television on Comcast 26 (standard-def) and 319 (hi-def), Wave 26 (standard-def) and 695 (hi-def), and Century Link 8008 (standard-def) and 8508 (hi-def).

To listen by phone, dial 206-800-4125 and use Conference ID 182 876 777#. This phone number and Conference ID will also be used by those who sign up to provide public testimony through the process described on the agenda below.

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I. Call to Order – 4:15 p.m.

1. General Welcome Announcement to Audience
2. Roll Call

II. Superintendent Comments 

III. Board Comments

• Director & Student Member Comments

IV. Progress Monitoring

• Presentation (Materials added 9/18/2024)

V. Public Testimony – 5:00 p.m.

Members of the public who wish to address the board in person or by teleconference may sign up online beginning Monday, September 16, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. The public testimony list will be posted Tuesday, September 17, 2024. Those who sign up online and are placed on the posted public testimony list may provide their testimony in person or by dialing 206-800-4125 and using Conference ID 182 876 777#. For information on how the public testimony list is created, please visit the Board’s website.

Testimony List

Order	Name	Topic
1	Liat Reif	School Closures and elimination of Option school programs
2	Janis White	Policy 2190
3	Chris Jackins	Action Item (Consent item #4): Scoring and ranking method for selecting schools for Building Excellence (BEX) VI Capital Levy; Don’t close schools
4	Ben Gitenstein	Action Item (Consent Agenda): “Amendment to and Renaming of Board Policy No. 2190, Highly Capable Services (renamed “Highly Capable Program”); Don’t close schools
5	Stephanie Gove-Yin	HCC, agenda item Amendment to and Renaming of Board Policy No. 2190, Highly Capable Services (renamed “Highly Capable Program”).
6	Candace Kasbarian	School closures
7	Chau Pho Tung	WSHS under-resourced
8	Janel Lardizabal	Well resourced schools WSHS
9	Sophia Conley	TOPS DHH program
10	Dustin Cole	School Closures
11	Christie Matthaei	Option schools
12	Kaitlin Murdock	Well Resourced Schools
13	Michele Campbell	WRS
14	Liz Barry	Dual Language in SPS
15	Nicole Salisbury	Option Schools
16	Adam Mollis	Well-resourced schools-TOPS K8
17	Matisse Berthiaume	Choice
18	Chris Longhurst	School Closures – Tops DHH
19	Laura Marie Rivera	Option Schools
20	Sam Gutierrez	Equitable access
21	Lily Eakin	Transitioning
22	Sarah Pulanco	Overcrowding at West Seattle High School
23	Paul Bugala	Under Funding of West Seattle High School
24	Nelson Conley	TOPS DHH
25	Joe Mangan	Closure Options

Testimony Waitlist

Order	Name	Topic
1	Barbara Orchard Aragon	Equitable transition
2	Connor Lee	Resourced Schools
3	Samantha Fogg	Well Resourced Schools Plan
4	Mia Klarich	DLI and inclusive transition
5	Taryn Longhurst	TOPS DHH
6	Kirsten Verlander	Well-Resourced Schools – TOPS K-8
7	Gloria ramirez	Cierre de escuelas
8	Molly Soudant	Well-resourced schools – TOPS K8
9	Rebekah Binns	Against School Closures
10	Jackson lum	Compassionate transitioning of students
11	Jennifer Girou	WSHS – Under resourced
12	Jana Parker	Well Resourced Schools plan – consideration of needs of disabled students
13	Marina Mason	Access to DLI programs
14	Manuela Slye	WRS
15	Lisa Ingrassia	Well-Resourced Schools: Tops K-8
16	Ellen Rikhof	WSHS under-resourced
17	Brenda Mollis	Well Resourced Schools-Tops K8
18	Gregory Engel	Education on firearm injury prevention
19	Rahel Stampfer	Well-resourced schools-TOPS K8
20	Jovie Pohlers	The value of K-8 schools
21	Alyssa Everitt	School Closures
22	Mela Erickson	Well resourced schools TOPS
23	Iris Viveros	Well Resorced schools
24	Brian Bonlender	SPS school closure plans
25	Linc Verlander	Potential TOPS school closure
26	James Whitney Kahn Parker	Special education
27	Lisa Calvert	School closures
28	Holly Rikhof	West Seattle High Under-resourced
29	Elsa Jones	DHH pathways and emergency systems
30	Cessalee Smith-Stovall	DLI equity
31	Ann Scott Tyson	Oppose closing any Seattle public schools
32	Brooke Fox	SPS’s Well Resourced Schools Plan
33	June Nho Ivers	School Closure
34	Hodan Mohamed	Well resourced school and special education services
35	Sebrena Burr	“Kasserian Ingera – How are the children?   Well Resourced Schools, PASS Contract; Centering the needs, protection and rights of students, first!
36	Leslie Harris	Well Resourced Schools Consolidation List
37	Laura Monsey	School Closure Plans – Lafayette Elementary
38	Norah Fox	SPS’s Well Resourced School Plan
39	Emily Cherkin	Action Item: Approval of 2024-25 Superintendent Evaluation Instrument; Student 1 to 1 device harm and cost
40	Crystal Hall	Well-resourced schools: TOPS K8
41	Jane Park	School Closures
42	Tyler Dupuis	School closures
43	Lucy and Theo Bromley	DLI
44	Frances Bugala	West Seattle High School Under Resources
45	Joe Alterio	Well Resourced Schools Proposal
46	Jessica Holman	School closure proposal
47	Quyen Pham	Well Resourced Schools Closure Plan
48	BJ Ong	Well Resourced Schools Closure Plan
49	Laura Gramer	Well Resourced School- TOPS DHH
50	Michael Fox	SPS’s Well Resourced Plans, option a and option b
51	Scott Middleton	Well-Resourced School Planning/Potential Closure of Lafayette Elementary School
52	Alex Wakeman Rouse	Budget
53	Minnette Reilly perkins	Well resourced schools
54	May Ling Joa	Future of SPS families
55	Marcelo A. Elizondo	DLI
56	Stephanie Soares	Closures
57	O’Hara Jimenez	School closures
58	Michelle Kusowski	Well Resourced Schools Plan
59	Nicholas Kamuda	Well-resourced schools-TOPS K8
60	Alexander Soares	School Closure
61	Meghan Albert	Lafayette
62	Sara Davis	School closures – Lafayette representation
63	Joaquín Vicuña	DLI inclusive language transition
64	Christine Radkey	School closures
65	Rachel Payne	We’ll-resourced school plan; Pathfinder K-8 parent
66	Kelsey Mangan	Understanding data between SPS closure options plz
67	Antonia Eberhart	School Closures
68	James Newell	Seattle Public Schools closure
69	Elidé Malagamba	The importance of Lenguage Heritage for Migrant Kids
70	Erin King	Well-resourced schools-TOPS K8
71	Katy Lo	Well-Resourced Schools
72	Aidan Carroll	Don’t close schools, and no cops in schools
73	Eleanor Warren	Pathfinder middle school
74	Jake milstein	Catherine Blaine K8 proposed closure
75	Abbie Chandler	Well resourced schools, TOPS K-8
76	Zhijun Liu	School closures
77	Lisa Botes	Well-resourced schools-TOPS K8
78	Heather Smith	School closure – specifically Catharine Blaine and K-8 schools
79	Bartholomew Milstein	Proposed closure of Blaine k8
80	Laurel Beckwith	Proposed closures
81	Nikki Rice	Lafayette Future Prospects
82	Renee Phelps	Overcrowded classes at West Seattle High School
83	Becky Brownlee	Well Resourced Schools
84	Sadie schnitzler	School Closures-Equity, Inclusion + Thriving Community
85	Evelyn Johanson	The negative education, emotional and mental impacts closing a K8, specifically top performing Catharine Blaine, would have.  Many students need and thrive in an environment with more community-based classes and relationships.  We NEED this educational opportunity to stay!
86	Chad Young	Well Resourced Schools plans
87	Angela Blums	School closures
88	Sarah Peppers	School Closure Proposal/Options
89	Zoë Bryant	School Overcrowding
90	Jonathan King	Well-resourced schools-TOPS K8
91	Erin Roubik	School closures
92	Daniel Roubik	School closures
93	Mary Katherine Hodde	Impact of Well Resourced Schools Closures
94	Taahir Ahmed	Impact of well-resourced schools proposals
95	Anthony Riemma	Inequity in school closure list, 86% are Tier 4 from the School Equity Tiers, but Tiers 4s make up only 61% of all schools.
96	Michi Nair	Well-resourced schools-TOPS K8
97	Jennifer Arterburn	School Closures
98	Willow Milstein	School Closures
99	Andrea Bachhuber-Beam	School closures and dual language immersion
100	Shana Schasteen	Graham Hill closure impact on Inclusion in SE Seattle and the closure of the Medically fragile/ deaf/hoh programs
101	Margaret Pak Enslow	Well resourced schools- TOPS K-8
102	Sarah Winkle	School closures – Lafayette
103	Sophie-Shifra Gold	DHH program at risk of closure at TOPS K-8
104	Veronica Bello	Dual Language Immersion programs
105	Katherine Ritchey	School Closure
106	Marian Wagner	School closures proposals aim for uniformity, not equity
107	Corinne Banguero	Special education and extended resources
108	Brittany Cohen	Well Resourced School Inequity in West Seattle
109	Rachel Heath	School closure
110	Dragana Lassiter	The impact of option school closing
111	Nathan Figueroa	Well-Resourced Schools
112	Yuan-ching Mimi Yang	School closure
113	Sarah Reyneveld	School closures
114	Laura Love	School closure/funding
115	Andrea Clinkscales	Graham Hill closure
116	Alexandra Borowiecki	Proposed school closures
117	Erica Evans	Proposed Catherine Blaine K-8 closure
118	Michelle Dunlop	SPS and OSPI data does not support the school closure plan.
119	Shawn Bai	School closures impacting 72% of schools and potentially over 50% of SPS students
120	Donna Lansberry	Dual Language Programs

VI. Business Action Items

A. Consent Agenda

Routine Approvals (Introduction & Action)

1. Minutes of the August 23, 2024 Board Special Meeting, August 28, 2024 Board Special Meeting, August 28, 2024 Regular Board Meeting, and August 29, 2024 Board Special Meeting.
2. Personnel Report
3. Warrants Report – July 16 thru August 15, 2024

The following warrants as audited and certified by the auditing officer, as required by RCW 42.24.08, are approved for payment:

Fund	Payment Type	Amount
General Fund	*Payroll	$201,368.22
General Fund	Vendor	$39,077,374.59
Capital Project Fund	Vendor	$45,999,931.10
Associated Student Body Fund	Vendor	$28,928.52
Expendable Trust Fund	Vendor	$272,500.00
Grand Total	All	$85,580,102.43

Consent Agenda Items Previously Introduced

4. Scoring and Ranking Method for Selecting Schools for Building Excellence (BEX) VI Capital Levy. Approval of this item would approve the proposed scoring and ranking method for selecting Building Excellence schools.
5. Amendment to and Renaming of Board Policy No. 2190, Highly Capable Services (renamed “Highly Capable Program”). Approval of this item would amend Board Policy No. 2190, Highly Capable Services, and rename as Board Policy No. 2190, Highly Capable Program, as attached to the Board Action Report. (Updated Since Introduction; Materials updated 9/18/24)

B. Items Removed from the Consent Agenda

C. Action Items

1. Approval of 2024-25 Superintendent Evaluation Instrument. Approval of this item would approve the 2024-25 Superintendent Evaluation Instrument, as attached to the Board Action Report. (Introduction & Action) (Removed from agenda 9/13/24)

D. Introduction Items

1. Approval of Board Resolution No. 2024/25-9, Educational Program Reduction per Board Policy No. 0060. Approval of this item would adopt Board Resolution No. 2024/25-9, Educational Program Reduction, as attached to this Board Action Report. (Materials added 9/16/24)

VII. Budget Development Study Session: Preview 2025-26 Budget Options (Materials added 9/13/24; Materials updated 9/16/24)

VIII. Well-Resourced Schools Update (revised on agenda 9/13/24)

• Presentation (Materials added 9/18/24)
• Seattle Public Schools Report on Data and Options for School Closures (Materials added 9/16/2024; Materials updated 9/17/2024)

IX. Board Self-Evaluation

• Board Time-Use Evaluation – August 2024 (Materials added 9/16/24)

X. Informational Items

• Monthly Budget Status Report – July 2024

XI. Adjourn – 8:30 p.m.

Calendar Reminders

A complete list of upcoming Board meetings and Director community meetings can be found on the School Board calendar website.