School Board president starts blog

As the Seattle School Board faces some tough issues, Michael DeBell, the President of the Board and District 4 representative which covers Ballard, Queen Anne and Magnolia wants to hear from you. He has recently started a blog to hear from his constituents. “The topics will be both district wide and specific to my district,” he writes us, “I hope this will provide a forum for the many issues of K-12 education.” One of the hot-button issues facing the School Board is the Student Assignment Plan (.pdf) which will determine where students will go to school based on their address. Some parents have been concerned that high school students living in Ballard will be bussed to Ingraham. DeBell writes in his first blog post about the role of the School Board, who is currently “tackling a rewrite of our entire policy book to clarify, simplify and update a 700 page behemoth of policies dating back thirty years.”