All Together For Seattle Schools
Ways to Advocate for our Seattle Students and Schools Right Now
Wednesday, JANUARY 29th, 2025
4:30PM Meeting starts
Special School Board Meeting
Agenda and relevant materials will be posted 24 hours in advance.
MAKE AN IMPACT - JOIN US IN SUPPORTING THE EFFORTS OF THE BILLION DOLLAR BAKE SALE
Host a bake-sale in your community with the Billion Dollar Bake Sale. They have an action toolkit and other resources ready to go to help you plan and hold a bake-sale which can help your community become informed and raise funds to take yourselves to Olympia and have your voice heard. Access their toolkit and sign up to host a bake-sale
Join Us and others to Lobby in Olympia on Jan 30, 2025: All Together allong with other groups will be joining together in Olympia to join the Billion Dollar Bake Sale in an Advocacy Day. We hope you can join us either virtually or in person and make our demands clear to the legislature that they fully fund Washington State Public Schools.
Contact your elected representatives.
Also visit fundsps.com to send letters to the school board and state legislators
This site was developed by a group of Seattle Public Schools (SPS) parents from across the city and of different backgrounds. We support public education as foundational to democracy and to achieving racial equity within our society. We believe every child deserves a safe, nurturing, and enriching public school experience that allows each child to achieve their full potential.
We believe that in the face of a budget crisis, SPS needs to partner with families, communicate more transparently, and advocate to the state legislature for increased school funding.
Our goal is to offer clear and concise information so that all of us together can understand what's happening at SPS, and all of us together can advocate for our schools, educators, and students.
Questions?
Contact AllTogetherForSPS@gmail.com to get more information on this effort
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SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MAY WITHDRAW CLOSURE PLANS
Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Brent Jones will consider withdrawing his latest school closure proposal, he said at a board meeting Tuesday night
SPS has named the four schools they propose to close and where they would move those students.
Seattle Public Schools families are speaking out following the district’s announcement proposing to close and consolidate schools for the 2025-2026 school year amid dropping enrollment and a need for more state funding.
"In an October surprise of sorts, new figures show that the number of kids in classes did not drop as expected. The October enrollment, used to determine state funding, in fact ticked up for the first time since the 2019 school year, before the pandemic touched off an exodus.
Seattle Public Schools leaders have named four schools they plan to close next year as part of an effort to alleviate a $100 million budget shortfall.
About 300 parents and students wore red and chanted “Save our schools!” outside Seattle Public Schools headquarters Wednesday.
A Seattle Public Schools board meeting is underway as parents and students rally outside, calling for no school closures.
In the South End, parents, students, and educators are coming to grips with proposed massive school closures and their effects on children — especially marginalized and vulnerable students.
Ahead of Wednesday's Seattle Public Schools board meeting, parents and community members held a rally outside the district headquarters in protest of the potential school closures.
The Seattle School Board is now scheduled to vote June 26 on the district budget — which holds in the balance the district’s plan to close 20 elementary schools.
Seattle parents will get more details next week on the school district's proposal to close up to 20 elementary schools by the fall of 2025.
After a proposal to close 20 elementary schools during a Seattle Public Schools board meeting Wednesday, parents have a lot to say.
A week after the Seattle School Board directed Superintendent Brent Jones to draft a plan to close as many as 20 elementary schools in the city, causing thousands of kids and staff to shift buildings, SPS announced a series of community meetings in May and June.
NEW SEATTLE SCHOOLS FISCAL PLAN: NO CLOSURES NEXT YEAR BUT 'NOTHING IS OFF THE TABLE'
The Seattle School Board on Wednesday gave its stamp of approval to a financial stabilization plan that includes no school closures for the nest school year.
WE MUST HOLD THE STATE ACCOUNTABLE FOR ADEQUATE SCHOOL FUNDING
It's an uncomfortable, deeply concerning truth: Our public schools are facing dire financial straits.
SEATTLE SCHOOL CLOSURES COULD HINGE ON NEW ENROLLMENT, CAPACITY COUNTS
Faced with declining enrollment and a $104.4 million deficit, Seattle Public Schools administrators will roll out a fiscal stabilization plan Wednesday that could pave the way for school closures and consolidations.
NO SEATTLE SCHOOL CLOSURE RECOMMENDED FOR 2024-2025
No school closures for the 2024-25 school year.
That is Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Bret Jones' recommendation to the SPS board this week.