SPS Practices Result in Inadequate Staffing

Local PTA leader and SPS parent Kaitlin Murdock has been crunching the district’s own numbers, and what she found is alarming. In the letter below, which she recently sent to the Seattle School Board, Kaitlin lays out how years of flawed (and at times manipulated)...

Removal of the Special Education Funding Cap

by Jana Parker Better Access to Services and a Step Toward Equity Eliminating the cap on special education funding is a necessary step toward more equitable access to services across Washington State. But increased funding alone won’t solve everything—districts also...
HB 1051: The Right to Record IEP Meetings

HB 1051: The Right to Record IEP Meetings

Did you know that millions of families across the US have the right to record their IEP meetings? Not so in Washington, where the all-party consent-to-record requirement has kept recording IEP (individualized education plan) meetings from becoming common practice....
Solving Special Education Staff Shortages

Solving Special Education Staff Shortages

School districts face many challenges when hiring Special Education teachers and paraeducators. Washington state auditors recently investigated these challenges and described actionable solutions. The strategies in their report focus on finding and keeping qualified...