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Read more about the article Lincoln High School Community Meeting this Thursday

Lincoln High School Community Meeting this Thursday

Seattle Public Schools will be renovating Lincoln High School and it will re-open as a permanent high school in September of 2019. Join Director Burke and SPS staff this Thursday, Oct 27 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM for a community listening meeting about the reopening. They will share plans have for the site renovation and restoration, while academic programming and student assignment plans are still developing. Come and share your concerns and ideas to help make Lincoln's opening a successful…

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Read more about the article Hamilton Middle School portables – a student’s perspective

Hamilton Middle School portables – a student’s perspective

An article has already been written about Hamilton International Middle School's new additions, but here is an insider's perspective anyway. This is my third year at Hamilton. My experience has always been pleasant and the building itself, though somewhat annoying when I'm trying to reach faraway classes, has been a solid good. The portables that have taken over the Hamilton playtop have been designated for eighth graders such as myself. I have three classes in the portables as do many of my friends.…

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Read more about the article This Weekend: Good Plants, Bad Plants, Phamarcants

This Weekend: Good Plants, Bad Plants, Phamarcants

If you like to eat, tend or learn about plants, this weekend's Wallingford activities should be right up your alley! Invasive Plants Class 10 to 11:30 Saturday: The community gardeners at the Freeway Estates Community Orchard (FECO) invite you to participate in their invasive plants class on Saturday from 10:00- 11:30 am at the Freeway Estates Community Orchard: 6th Ave NE, just north of NE 60th St (on the west side of I-5, next to the sound wall).  This class will be taught by a representative…

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Read more about the article Hamilton Wants to be Pesticide Free

Hamilton Wants to be Pesticide Free

A few weeks back, when I posted about pesticide use at Wallingford Park, I heard from several families at Hamilton International Middle School. As noted before on this blog, Seattle Public Schools routinely utilizes pesticides at public schools, because it is more cost-effective than hand-weeding. There are so many concerns about the use of pesticides around children and pregnant women that I don't even know where to begin my rant about this short-sighted behavior, so I will point you to the fact…

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Read more about the article Elementary Open Enrollment at Seattle Public Schools

Elementary Open Enrollment at Seattle Public Schools

Wallingford is fortunate to have some excellent public elementary schools, although they are unfortunately fractured in their attendance areas. Just last year the decision was made to make both John Stanford and McDonald school "option schools", meaning nobody in Wallingford is guaranteed entrance. There's a complicated lottery system that assigns a certain number of slots to students in the walk zone and then to other buckets as well, so nobody is guaranteed a slot. The primary reason Sherry Carr (our school board…

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Read more about the article New Option School: Pinehurst

New Option School: Pinehurst

(John Chapman sent along this announcement of a new Wallingford-based public option school.) There is a New Option Public School in Wallingford. Pinehurst K-8 in Partnership with Native Heritage AS-1, will be moving from their current location in the Pinehurst neighborhood to the South Wing of Lincoln for 3 years, starting in the fall of 2014. Pinehurst K-8, formerly known as Alternative School 1, is Seattle’s first and oldest alternative school, providing an experiential, project-based, social-justice curriculum since 1969. In the…

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Read more about the article New Family Tours/Events at Local Public Schools

New Family Tours/Events at Local Public Schools

I am so confused about which part of the neighborhood is going to which school next year, and I am probably not alone.  But school tours are coming up! Not sure what your reference school is? Try the SPS address locator. B.F. Day Elementary is offering parent visitations/tours from 9:30-10:30 am on Thursdays January 23rd and February 13th. No RSVP is required, but you are requested to check-in at the office upon arrival. These will be the only tours. On January…

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