The Seattle public school community has had enough - three years of expensive chaos and incompetence under Dr Goodloe Johnson and its time for her to go.
Well, its been four days since we set up our Declaration of No Confidence in Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson online, asking people to read and to sign...
And word of mouth and media publicity is spreading the news...
We're running this petition to show the District that teachers are not alone in their dissatisfaction with the Superintendent. Teaching staff at four schools have voted no confidence in the Superintendent, and we've heard at least three other schools are also formulating a no confidence resolution...
And this very serious step of taking a No Confidence vote comes after three years of letter writing, blogging, board meeting testimonies, filing law suits, attending community meetings, phone calls, other rallies, all to no avail.
We wonder how long it will take, how much more evidence the School Board needs before it has the courage and integrity to act on its' constituents' desires?
We're doing this now because the School Board is currently evaluating the Superintendent's performance, considering whether to give her a pay rise and bonus and/or to extend her contract until 2013. We parents don't want her in the District for a minute longer than absolutely necessary - in fact most of us want her fired with cause, or to have her contract bought out. At a cost of $750K, it would be cheap at twice the price, considering the multi-millions of dollars her policies and incompetence have cost us already and will continue to cost us as long as she is here.
We're rallying and presenting this Declaration to the Board at its next meeting on June 16th; it will vote on Dr Goodloe-Johnson's contract on July 7. If you want more information and/or to join us, please call me on 206 679 1738. If you haven't read and signed the Declaration yet, please do...
And no, we do not want privatization and charters and more high stakes standardized testing in our city... We want COMPASSIONATE, humane, common-sense, grass roots change, easy to implement, taking time and honoring each student as a unique individual with unique talents, skills and needs...
If the Everett School District can do it, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2012063202_danny09.html so can Seattle....
Namaste
Sahila ChangeBringer
member, Seattle Shadow School Board
tel: 206 679 1738
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