tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37371281513317512072023-11-16T07:09:13.394-08:00More 4 MannMore4Mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616693574308372732noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3737128151331751207.post-45435448443023150002014-07-28T09:34:00.001-07:002014-07-28T09:34:52.804-07:00WON APPEAL<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Arrestee/press contact Leith Jasinowski-Kahl a</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">t<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="tel:%28206%29%20940-3807" target="_blank" value="+12069403807"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(206) 940-3807</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">.</span><span style="color: white;">or
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of 4 Africatown supporters arrested at the Horace Mann School last November won
yesterday (July 25, 2014) an appeal of a banning order from the Seattle Public
Schools that had barred them from all School District property and School
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to the SPS attorney Ronald Boy, the Judge said there is "a paucity of law
supporting the School District because they know there is no law that supports
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the arrestees "holdover tenants," the Judge reprimanded the school
district for confusing its role as a landlord at a particular building with its
overarching role as a public agency focused on education that is subject to the
First Amendment and the Public Meetings Act.</span><br />
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Prochnau also questioned te legality of the review hearing required by the
school district where Safety Director Larry Dorsey presided over the initial
appeal of his own decision.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Omari
Tahir-Garrett said, "We have put a hole in the school-to-prison pipeline
by defeating School District Attorney Ron English's attempt to silence us."</span><br />
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Hildes, attorney for the arrestees, said, " We are extremely gratified
that our clients' right to speak their conscience has been restored and the the
Court reminded the School District that they are subject to public speech,
assembly, petition to redress grievance and the Public Meetings Act's
Appearance of Fairness Doctrine, even if they wish they were not."</span></span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">For several years now, a broad coalition of Seattle’s African American community and its supporters have been (alongside the Federal Justice Department) calling out this School District for its over-50-year-long record of absolute failure to serve the educational needs of its African American constituents. The More 4 Mann coalition even mobilized volunteers, free of charge, to activate an impressive array of programs in the public Horace Mann School Building, which the District had not used since 2009.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">This August, the District claimed that it wanted to embrace and enter into partnership with this pro public education grassroots civil initiative, and engaged the More 4 Mann Coalition in several months of dialogue. The District and the Coalition convened a community task force that issued a progressive set of recommendations in favor of African American inclusion and involvement, both intellectual and manual, in the renovation of the Horace Mann Building, as well as in the curriculum and programming to be provided in that building when its renovation is complete. The task force also recommended a series of mitigating measures to prevent any complete displacement of the Africatown community from that historical address, either during OR after renovation. The District then signed a letter of its intent to adhere to these task force recommendations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Apparently, an old guard faction within the District then proceeded to reassert power, countermand the pragmatism of the Superintendent from LA, and to dictate his next actual moves as well as those of the Seattle Police. Electricity to the building was unilaterally shut off on November 9<sup>th</sup>, which interrupted many of our programs. Those programs which managed to continue were then also interrupted on November 19<sup>th</sup>, when Seattle Police raided the building without eviction notice or search warrant, unilaterally arresting three programmers (including a task force member) and one member of the general public who happened to be visiting the building at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">While under arrest, these four were all handed an “Exclusion” flier by a representative of the District, which claims that they are forbidden to attend any School District meeting or set foot on any District property for one year, but that they may appeal this decision to an internal hearing process under “Board procedure F44.01”. This is clearly an attempt to prevent the More 4 Mann Coalition from presenting public grievances to our government, especially as it came only six days after another SPS “Admonishment” flier, which threatened to exclude a More 4 Mann task force member from School Board meetings if he made any more public criticisms of the District´s powerful and influential, but apparently incompetent General Counsel Ron English.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Naturally, our coalition and its attorney have appealed these SPS fliers and demanded a public hearing. The District agreed to set this hearing for 3 PM tomorrow, Thursday December 12<sup>th</sup>, at the John Stanford Building.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">While we cannot consider this to be a legitimate hearing under such conditions, we shall still attend it to show our respect for civil procedure as community volunteers behind the School District’s stated mission of education and opportunities for all.</span></div>
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cars, and police on bikes to clear the Horace Mann building of its occupants.
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building. The police presence to extract 4 people could be called excessive
with officers knocking down doors with rams and climbing in through roof top
hatches. How much money did they spend on this exercise? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px;">(video of the events: <a href="http://youtu.be/yv5yfOSUBVg">http://youtu.be/yv5yfOSUBVg</a>)</span></div>
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than 20 officers present. Putting up no </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px;">fight, they were taken to the east
precinct where they were released with threats from police of impending charges
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Despite desperate media attempts to paint the occupants as
violent, the More4Mann participants at Horace Mann have remained peaceful.
Putting forth a message of equality and equity in Seattle Public School.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px;">More for Mann’s main concerns being:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">1) Disproportionality
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">2) The mismanagement of the 1.2 billion
levy that is contributing little to no dollars to dealing with
disproportionality and racial inequality in Seattle Public School and is
allocating less than $20,000 to minority contractors for SPS capitol projects</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px;">3) Ronn English, an infamous school
district attorney who continues to implement questionable practices and
policies that border line corruption</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdHjpKrY-HKZHhUj10gFzNvTK65SFfazG14LCCCUBMnvFw6vEd9hULOuA7b2ODiztWqLsn8DMTQpXD12gWcGiYB5nGLEh0p8h0FYMlhn0wg7vevcPx7Gajqj6agXRKlMY6GSiPQaqLo3c/s1600/Police+HM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdHjpKrY-HKZHhUj10gFzNvTK65SFfazG14LCCCUBMnvFw6vEd9hULOuA7b2ODiztWqLsn8DMTQpXD12gWcGiYB5nGLEh0p8h0FYMlhn0wg7vevcPx7Gajqj6agXRKlMY6GSiPQaqLo3c/s320/Police+HM.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">While this story is traumatic and very real to black community
it is not an isolated incident, but instead seems to be a part of the pedagogy
and strategy of Seattle Public Schools to continue to allow black and brown
students to be marginalized and disenfranchised.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">After nearly 40 years of operation, the
Seattle Public Schools (SPS) announced the closure of the American Indian
Heritage Middle College High School, a.k.a. Indian Heritage, located at 1330 N.
90th Street, Seattle, WA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">José Banda the Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools
presented a public statement last July 2012 expressing commitment to consult
with the Native community on ‘next steps’ in consideration of revitalizing the
Indian Heritage, the pending BEX Levy, demolition of the Indian Heritage
facilities, and the preservation of the murals created by Andrew Morrison.
Instead the Indian Heritage and Native students suffered continued decline in
2012-2013 being reduced to digital learning, no Native-focused instruction, no
Native-infused curriculum, and a new instructor unfamiliar to Native students,
parents, and community. The Native community proposals and concerns addressing
these drastic changes have been ignored by SPS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">After the May rally to save the Indian Heritage program SPS had
met with Native community members and said the Native students would be
temporarily relocated to Lincoln High School during construction of the new
school, that SPS would work with them in revitalizing Indian Heritage, that the
murals would be preserved, and Indian Heritage would come back to the new
school. Instead SPS claims the Indian Heritage was eliminated because there
were ‘not enough kids’, but SPS never contacted the students about the plan and
made no effort to recruit new students, the Native students have now been forced
to assimilate into an entirely different program and relocated to Northgate
Mall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">It is unconscionable that resources been completely withdrawn
from Native programming and services, while SPS acknowledges the statistical
facts illustrating disproportionate academic performance, disciplinary action,
and highest dropout rates for Native learners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Education, we want to know why SPS fails to comply with Individualized
Education Program and 504 Basic Plan, and why Native students are underserved
and over represented in this area of education. The trajectory for Native
learners in SPS is of tremendous concern given the districts decisions to
eliminate Indian Heritage and displace current programs functioning at the
Indian Heritage facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">At this time we will again initiate and voice our opposition
with Seattle Public Schools plan to eliminate Indian Heritage. We as a
community will invite SPS to listen to our viable plan that includes our recommendations
to revitalize the Indian Heritage program by:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />• Temporarily relocate the Indian Heritage program to Lincoln
High School as planned NOT to Northgate Mall until the new site has been
completed in 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">• Revitalization of Indian Heritage program at Ingraham H.S. and
West Seattle H.S. location<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">• As SPS is a recipient of Title VII federal funds for enrolled
Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native students, we ask that they comply
with regulations that include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"> (1) meeting the unique educational and culturally related
academic needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"> (3) the training of Indian persons as educators and counselors,
and in other professions serving Indian people; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"> (4) research, evaluation, data collection, and technical
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">Thus as Title VII Part A states, “ensuring that programs that
serve Indian children are of the highest quality and provide for not only the
basic elementary and secondary educational needs, but also the unique
educational and culturally related academic needs of these children.” Currently
there is absolutely no demonstration of this in SPS relocation program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKibrp-fQmkcqF5tiPfDMaKaZo_X7BcflHWH3nm7t1JpthbaQpbBV3H_1hqIVBzR2L-MHGCfoAe4LzIJqtenC-gKcIr6kWwGfZaCY1IIzAs_nHhwgDbYV6Mkqfpz8Fx_X_wKGnrWt3ak/s1600/Unknown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKibrp-fQmkcqF5tiPfDMaKaZo_X7BcflHWH3nm7t1JpthbaQpbBV3H_1hqIVBzR2L-MHGCfoAe4LzIJqtenC-gKcIr6kWwGfZaCY1IIzAs_nHhwgDbYV6Mkqfpz8Fx_X_wKGnrWt3ak/s320/Unknown.jpeg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">• We recommend that all the murals that were made by artist
Andrew Morrison (Apache/Haida) be preserved and incorporated in its original
form into the new school (and not be replicated as Mr. Morrison requests).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">• Rename the Wilson-Pacific School ‘Robert Eaglestaff School
thereby keeping a promise made to the Native community in 1996 by John Stanford
and echoed by Norm Rice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">• Provide support for new a ‘Native Heritage’ AS-I school with
Native focused instruction/curriculum and culturally responsive services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">• Preserve the Sacred Site of the Duwamish Licton Springs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">Further, we continue to ask Seattle Public Schools to act
accountably and quickly to remedy the impact of disproportionality and
educational inequality upon black children and youth in SPS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">We continue to ask that SPS partner with Africatown Innovation
Center for Education to develop culturally responsive and relevant curriculum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c1c1c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">We continue to ask that SPS partner with AICE to provide
teachers in SPS with trainings that engage them around best practices and
strategies for teaching black children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will not rest until every black and brown child and youth in Seattle Public
Schools are educated at the level that all children deserve with the same
opportunities and rights that are inalienable for all people.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">The community mobilization around the
Africatown Innovation Center (a portion of the More4Mann Campaign) has reached
a climactic moment of celebration.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">Many across Seattle are working on developing
solutions for the African-American education crisis and the opportunity gap.
This weekend WE seek to hear all voices under one roof so that TOGETHER we can
take even greater strides towards shifting the paradigm around the education of
our children and youth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">The past few days of the campaign have been
both energizing and challenging. We have received a gracious amount of support
from Superintendent Banda and his staff, but that has not come without backlash
from certain segments of the Seattle community. Some community groups, who lack
understanding of the AIC’s mission, have moved to pressure the School Board to
undo all the progress that we have made alongside the Superintendent over the
last 4 months. Yesterday there were several attack articles in the media that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">lacked substantive understanding</b> of the
campaign and the projects <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">community members and educators have been
hard at work developing</i></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: large;">In response, we will hold a press conference at 2pm this
Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">We
will announce the positive educational outcomes and programs that our community
will offer and our exciting forthcoming partnership with Seattle Public
Schools. </span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Come and learn about many of the successful
programs created and organized by parents and community members!</span><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #ba121e; font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">We need every parent, child, youth, and
community member that is able to attend in support. We want to continue
to show the unified community of African-American parents, educators and
students working together to take responsibility for the education of our
children.</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is the time to rectify the past inequities and ineffective methods to educate
our children.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">We will no longer accept and allow sub-standard
resources, results, programs and policies directed to our young scholars.
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The 2012 Seattle Public Schools Data for
African-American Students highlights <u>the
crisis:</u></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: white; font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">Only 48.5% of African-American 10th graders met or exceeded standard
for Algebra<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for Biology<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">26.9% rate for short-term suspensions for African-American middle
school students (highest number in the district)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">In Seattle Public Schools: </span></b></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: white; font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">African-American high school students are suspended or expelled more
than three times as often as other students<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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times more likely to be disciplined than other students, according to district
data shared with Reuters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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short-term suspensions in any given year since at least the 2006-07 academic
year, compared with 7.4 percent or less annually for white students, the data
shows.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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school students in the Seattle district and 18 percent of 8,000 middle school
students there, and yet they account for more than 40 percent of all
suspensions and expulsions in those schools.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-0344feef-dbc6-a377-5f5e-49a9d47df993"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At this weekend's Education Summit Rita Green (President of the Rainier Beach PTSA) taught us about how five parents can transform any school into to a thriving educational space for all students. Ms. Greene believes that parents are essential to the development and sustainability of a high quality school that enables our students to thrive. She gave us numerous golden nuggets of wisdom regarding student success and district accountability.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 @ 6pm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will discuss details regarding the building update, program growth and upcoming events. Come and help us continue to develop More4Mann!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elevate to Educate: Cypher Circle</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: Friday, October 25, 2013 @ 5pm</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location: Africatown Innovation Center</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Local emcees and DJs will gather together in an intergenerational setting to share knowledge through the power of hip-hop. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/467684" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Umar Johnson </span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in Seattle October 25-26 @ Life Enrichment Bookstore</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More 4 Mann representatives received a lease proposal for Columbia Annex from Seattle Public Schools on Friday, October 18, 2013. There are concerns about the quality of space including reports of mold and rodents. The district had originally offered Van Asselt as an interim location but reneged on that location. </span></div>
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Last Saturday's Banner Drop-off and community breakfast was a success, drawing a broad base of individuals from organizations including <b>Partnership for Black Parent Empowerment</b>, <b><a href="http://creativitynotcontrol.wordpress.com/">Creativity not Control</a>, African American Longshoreman's Coalition, Umoja PEACE Center, <a href="http://www.pinwseattle.org/">The People's Institute Northwest</a>, <a href="http://nonewjimcrowseattle.org/">No New Jim Crow</a>, <a href="http://nonewjimcrowseattle.org/">Youth Speaks</a>, <a href="http://occupyseattle.org/">Occupy/Decolonize Seattle</a>,<a href="http://www.foodnotbombs.net/"> Food Not Bombs</a>, <a href="http://www.206zulu.com/">206 Zulu</a></b>, <b><a href="http://s-c-medialab.org/">Seattle Community Media Lab</a>, NOVA parents, students and alumni </b>and more to help hold the district accountable to a higher standard in their negotiation process with the community as well as to prevent the attempted displacement of <b><a href="http://africatowncenter.org/">Africatown</a></b>. The <b>Seattle Public School District</b> has been in conversation with the More 4 Mann coalition since the summer, but has yet to propose a viable solution to the <a href="http://www.more4mann.blogspot.com/p/the-crisis.html">crisis of education for Black youth</a> in Seattle and the Africatown-Central District specifically. In fact, the school district itself admitted that it has no plan to address the unique circumstances and issues of African American students.<br />
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<a href="http://www.seattleschools.org/modules/cms/pages.phtml?sessionid=&pageid=228594"><b>Pegi McEvoy</b></a>, assistant superintendent of Seattle Public Schools dropped through the event around 11am with a letter of intent for the Africatown coalition, and was approached with the sincere concerns of community members around the lack of consistency and transparency in the negotiation proceedings. Although the district has proposed several alternative sites in an attempt to divide and relocate the Africatown organizations that have been operating out of Horace Mann, the coalition holds firm in its commitment to stand together as one and continue culturally-competent, community-led educational programming for Black youth from this site until SPS demonstrates a genuine commitment to children of color in Seattle.<br />
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As negotiations continue, More4Mann will continue to hold space in Horace Mann School until a definite long-term solution is produced in this struggle for justice. Ultimately, we know we are our own solution, and we are committed to assisting SPS in reaching their own goals of being able to serve every child in the district. Look out for more updates soon to come on the ongoing negotiations, join us at Horace Mann for our Thursday 6pm meetings, and for moment-to-moment updates on the Horace Mann site, follow <a href="https://twitter.com/more4mann">@More4Mann</a> on twitter.<span class="null"> Photos in this post are by <b>Purpelle Tramble</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/purplereels">@PurpleReels</a></span>.<br />
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<br />More4Mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616693574308372732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3737128151331751207.post-3617100789780511942013-10-11T21:56:00.002-07:002013-10-16T17:33:52.263-07:00More 4 Mann Mural Project & Banner Drop Off Saturday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span itemprop="description"><span class="fsl">Do you believe in justice and equality for all?<br /> Do you believe in equitable education for all?<br /> Do you want to see more effective education for all students in Seattle Public Schools?</span></span><br />
<span itemprop="description"><span class="fsl"><br /> So do we! </span></span><br />
<span itemprop="description"><span class="fsl">Join us 9am, Saturday, October 12th, 2013 at Africatown Innovation Center at Horace Mann, 2410 E Cherry Street. <br /> <span class="text_exposed_show"><br />
We are faced with a crisis in Seattle Public Schools! Black children
and families across the district are not receiving the education and
services they deserve. The opportunity gap continues to grow! Now is the
time to bridge the opportunity gap.<br /> <br /> The More4Mann Campaign
seeks to partner with Seattle Public Schools to assist in advancing the
achievement of black children by decreasing and ending the opportunity
gap. <br /> <br /> We are actively providing culturally relevant education for black children and families.<br /> <br />
The More4Mann Campaign is working to maintain the AfricaTown Cultural
Innovation Center in the Horace Mann School on 24th & Cherry. The
Central District of Seattle is an historically black neighborhood and
Horace Mann is an historical landmark.<br /> <br />WE NEED YOUR HELP.<br /> <br />
We are still working with Seattle Public Schools to achieve an
agreement that benefits both the district and the community. This plan
will:<br /> <br /> 1) Provide accessible and comparable space to continue
providing the vital programming to assist our youth until the completion
of the renovation on the Horace Mann School.<br /> <br /> 2) Ensure
equitable participation by African American contractors and
jobs/training opportunities in any renovation/construction.<br /> <br /> 3)
Honor the districts commitment to future space for Africatown and
partnership in the Horace Mann School to address crisis of our students
post the completion of the renovations.<br /> <br /> 4) Work with community to honor the African American cultural legacy at Horace Mann in the redesign/renovation.<br /> <br />
5) The project will be a community-led community-based partnership that
will assist the school district in achieving it’s goal of decreasing
and ending the opportunity gap.<br /> <br /> We are asking organizations in support of the Campaign to:<br />
1) Invite your constituents to the Mural Installation this Saturday,
October 12th @ 9am. Seattle Public Schools invited us to design, paint
and install murals at Horace Mann to beautify the space for renovation.<br /> <br />
2) Send a member of your organization with a banner that has your name
and/or Logo OR send members of your organization to the event to create a
banner. These will be hung on the building as a public display of the
organizations that are in support of the More4Mann campaign.<br /> <br /> We will provide breakfast and family friend activities.<br /> <br /> We need:<br /> 1) Art supplies<br /> 2) Paint & Spray<br /> 3) Banners<br /> 4) Ply wood<br /> <br /> If you have questions please email us at:<br /> More4Mann@gmail.com</span></span></span>More4Mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616693574308372732noreply@blogger.com0