Ann Dornfeld
Stories
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Kent school principals lambast district leadership in letter to school board
School principals in Kent are calling out the superintendent and other district officials for poor leadership. In a scathing letter to the school board, the Kent Principals Association said district executives regularly undermine, ignore or fail to communicate with principals.
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Unvaccinated students and staff barred from two Seattle-area schools after new measles cases
After a staff member at Issaquah High School and a student at North Creek High School in Bothell were diagnosed with measles, Public Health Seattle-King County and Snohomish Health District told the schools to keep out any unimmunized students and staff for at least three weeks.
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'All I'm getting is the bare minimum.' Rainier Beach High School students protest budget cuts
Students and teachers at Rainier Beach High School say the cuts at their school will hamper students’ college plans. Dozens of students and staff gathered in front of the school Wednesday to protest cuts they say are unfair and inequitable.
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'A shady mess': Seattle Schools debates proposed science curriculum
Simon Harrington, a 7th grader at Jane Addams Middle School in Seattle, loves science - just not the new science curriculum his school introduced last year. "We sat down at computers, watched the video, and for the rest of the day did a lesson," he said. "We were basically bored by it."
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Faced with huge budget cuts, many school districts hope for relief from Olympia
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The end of the pipeline. Seattle teachers go to prison to get schooled
Every month, a Seattle high school principal brings a group of fellow educators to a nearby prison. It’s an effort to address the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline.”
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What's this police watchtower doing at a Seattle Safeway?
Does this surveillance unit serve more to deter crime - or to make citizens feel like they're living in a police state?
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Parents charge Kent Schools superintendent, board with financial mismanagement
Two parents in the Kent School District are asking a judge to examine how the superintendent and school board have been handling district finances.
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Bringing black teachers to Seattle classrooms, if only for an hour
In Seattle Public Schools, the adult at the front of the classroom is usually a white woman — even though 53 percent of students in the district are children of color.
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Students pay 'rent' or lose their desks at this elementary school
Kent School District officials are looking into a money-management curriculum at a Covington elementary school that requires students to “rent” their desks and “buy” bathroom passes using classroom currency.