Nancy Shen said...The article I was referring to was published on September 22, 2010 in the Redmond Reporter. Ms. Reith's letter in response stated that the Redmond reporter article was written when the district was seeking public input into the bond measure to be put on the ballot in February of 2010.
This response is incorrect because the Redmond reporter article was written more than 6 months after the bond levy was struck down by voters.
Therefore it is clear that the school district has not taken enough action in the last 2 years to address the overcrowding at Rosa Parks. The grade reconfiguration only delayed the population at rosa parks from reaching over 900 students this year. This move certainly helped many other schools in the district, but hardly helped Rosa Parks.
The only action the school district has taken in the last 2 years is to add additional portable classrooms and staff.
Ms. Shen is right that while I reviewed the article, I did not check the date carefully enough and was one year and one ballot measure off. It was written when we were seeking input for what became the February 2011 levy that provided funding for the additions to Redmond and Eastlake High Schools and the new STEM school. At the time the article was written, we were considering all options for February 2011, from rerunning the full bond to running a much smaller levy.
ReplyDeleteAmong the questions we sought public input on was whether or not any measure(s) for February 2011 should include a new elementary school for Redmond Ridge East. After receiving community input, the board did not include a new elementary school for Redmond Ridge East in that measure.
Aside from the error in the time frame for the article, the rest of my comments remain accurate.