3 chances to talk with West Seattle School Board rep Marty McLaren

January 6, 2012 at 1:42 pm | In West Seattle news, West Seattle schools | 2 Comments

With the hot topic of “capacity management” – how to relieve school overcrowding – heading toward a decision for short-term action, West Seattle’s new representative on the Seattle Public Schools board, Marty McLaren, has just scheduled three community meetings to talk with anyone interested in this or other district matters:

*Tomorrow, Saturday, January 7th, Southwest Library, 10 am-noon
*Monday, January 9th, at West Seattle Library, 10 am-noon
*Saturday, January 14th, Delridge Library, 11 am-1 pm

As we reported here Wednesday night, McLaren says she will propose an amendment to the district’s short-term capacity-management proposal that would cancel the plan to open the former Louisa May Boren Junior High School on Delridge as an “option” elementary school focused on STEM (science/technology/engineering/math). District officials speaking at the Wednesday board meeting said they did not expect the new school to initially pull enough students to avoid plans for adding portables to the most-crowded elementaries.

2 Comments

  1. Thanks Marty for reaching out on this topic important to many of us.

    Comment by huh! — 4:09 pm January 6, 2012 #

  2. Please note that it is undisputed that the short-term capacity management proposal will do nothing to address the short-term capacity problem. STEM might be cool, but I wish folks would stop pretending it has anything to do with capacity.

    Comment by taprat — 8:19 am January 14, 2012 #

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