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Seattle Public School tours begin as early as today, depending on the school you choose. Enrollment choice forms must be submitted between 2/17 and 3/1. Regardless of the level of school you are entering, you have choices. For Elementary, Wallingford has two language immersion option schools (McDonald and JSIS) and then two "neighborhood" schools that are outside the neighborhood- BF Day and Green Lake. There's also K-8 option schools (Hazel Wolf, Salmon Bay, Licton Springs), and APP (at Lincoln) to choose from.…

Here's an awesome opportunity to produce some local art, funded by the city, be a writer / poet in residency on the Fremont Bridge: The Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), seeks a writer to be in residence in the northwest tower of the Fremont Bridge. The selected writer or poet will undertake an in-depth exploration of the historic bridge’s role and meaning for the city of Seattle and create written materials in…

The long-time home of The Erotic Bakery, which briefly hosted Art of Confections, is now set to become a...wait for it...mini-market! OK, mini-market and sushi deli. I don't have many more details at this point. I popped my head in when owner John Chung was there to see what was going on, but didn't get much more info than you see here, plus that he is hoping to open sometime in February. I'm curious what a "sushi deli" will end up…

We poked into CVS a couple days ago and the main difference we saw with Bartell Drugs is that CVS sells spirits. Prices were similar across a sampling of beer, shampoo, and medicine. The store front looks to be well restored: It seems pretty clear they are in direct competition with Bartell Drugs and Walgreens, and Bartell Drugs has been stepping up their game in response (see the new refrigerators). There were only a couple people in CVS, about 10 in…

The agenda for the meeting this Wednesday, beginning at 7:15 in the Good Shepherd Center, room 202: Minutes 7:15  Kim England Treasurer's Report 7:20 Paul Willumson Planning  7:25  Greg Hill Report on Comp Plan Summary Waterways/Shoreline 7:40 Lee Raaen Shoreline/Waterways University Relations 7:45 Brian O’Sullivan and Jon Berkedal Transportation 7:55 Eric Fisk, discussion of waterway 22 transportation project status Parking RPZ 8:00 Mary Fielder and Catherine Smith  report on RPC actions Communications 8:05 Frank Fay Parks and Rec. 8:10 Angelique Hockett Parks Planning 8:20 (Urban Village…

In part 2 of looking at teacher reviews, today we focus on middle and high school. The net for high school is cast wide, since APP students from Hamilton go to Garfield or Ingraham. Here are the teacher survey results for middle and high schools your student may attend (for K-8 schools, see yesterday's post): Teacher Survey 2014 Teacher Survey 2015 Ingraham 77% 78% Roosevelt 72% 73% Whitman 78% 71% Ballard 64% 71% District Average 66% 69% Eckstein 64% 67% Hamilton…

School reports for Seattle Public Schools are released every year in December for the prior year. People focus on kids meeting standards, but that's really just a reflection of demographics plus how much the school is focused on drilling kids just below standard on their test taking skills. A good school works to meet every student where they're at and puts them on learning tracks to succeed in life, it doesn't treat every student as a widget to be stamped out as…