By Susan Wilkins
It makes me very upset to know that the district has been sitting on over $50 million and won't spend it on our students, but they think it's ok to give away $10,000,000 to Kirkland to build a new swimming pool. How can we have any confidence in this school district when they flippantly ignore $50,000,000 that's available when Rockwell, Mann, Rosa Parks, RMS, and all the Sammamish elementary schools are packed with students? What was even more appalling was that the school board members didn't seem too upset by the news that there was money available and unspent. What is going through their minds?
It makes me very upset to know that the district has been sitting on over $50 million and won't spend it on our students, but they think it's ok to give away $10,000,000 to Kirkland to build a new swimming pool. How can we have any confidence in this school district when they flippantly ignore $50,000,000 that's available when Rockwell, Mann, Rosa Parks, RMS, and all the Sammamish elementary schools are packed with students? What was even more appalling was that the school board members didn't seem too upset by the news that there was money available and unspent. What is going through their minds?
The topic at the May 5, 2014
LWSD Work Session was "Enrollment and Facility Planning." At this meeting, the district had already
conceded that the April 22 bond measure for $404,000,000 was not going to
pass. All five school board members were
present at the meeting and expressed frustration and anger at voters and at the
opposition committee that had campaigned against the ballot measure.
The school board members
appeared to have no idea what should be done to address overcrowding so they
looked to Superintendent Traci Pierce and she looked to Janene Fogard and
Forrest Miller. Janene Fogard is the Assistant
Superintendent of Operations and Forrest Miller is Director of Support
Services. Janene and Forrest appeared to
be making all the decisions on facilities planning. Read More>>