Seattle School Board and So-Called "Dysfunction"

Melissa Westbrook:

Following up on my analysis/thoughts on the Peters/Dale Estey race in District IV, I had promised a thread on this issue of so-called School Board "dysfunction."

As I have pointed out, in the Board evaluation, not a SINGLE member of the Board called the Board dysfunctional. One Board member said if they didn't trust each other more, they would become "the poster child for a dysfunctional Board." That's far from saying that they are. (One senior staff member did call them dysfunctional.)

Now if you read the whole evaluation, you can see there are issues. No denying that. BUT, what the Times and Dale Estey and all these people leave out are all the pages of comments - by both the Board and senior management - about the good things said about the Board as people and as Board members.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 28, 2013 12:01 AM
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