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Washington school official warned of 'staff members who identify as Christian' resistant to transgender directives ... A top official with Washington state's biggest school district told a fourth-grade elementary school teacher that a student’s pronoun change should not be shared with the parents, "regardless of age," unless the student consents.. In March of last year, a Seattle Education Association (SEA) board member and fourth-grade teacher reached out to Seattle Public Schools (SPS) to request a training at an SPS school on LGBTQ best practices, according to emails Fox News Digital obtained in a public records request. "It came to my...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Seattle school district's racial tiebreaker, along with a school-integration plan in Kentucky, but left the door open for the limited use of race to achieve diversity in schools. The decision in cases affecting how students are assigned to schools in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle could imperil similar plans in hundreds of districts nationwide, and it further restricted how public school systems may attain racial diversity. The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court's judgment. The court's four liberal justices dissented. "The way to stop discrimination on the...

Until June, the (Seattle) school district's Web site declared that "cultural racism'' includes "emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology,'' "having a future time orientation'' (planning ahead) and "defining one form of English as standard.'' The site also asserted that only whites can be racists, and disparaged assimilation as the "giving up'' of one's culture. After this propaganda provoked outrage, the district, saying it needed to "provide more context to readers'' about "institutional racism,'' put up a page saying that the district's intention is to avoid "unsuccessful concepts such as a melting pot or colorblind mentality.'' The Supreme...

I just find this below excerpt suspicious... - - - - - - - - - - Closures on table as Seattle Schools faces bankruptcy By Sanjay Bhatt Seattle Times staff reporter Seattle Public Schools is considering plans to close the equivalent of 12 to 22 schools starting in two years in order to stave off bankruptcy, district officials say. After similar actions by urban districts in California, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, administrators in Seattle say closing schools would help stabilize the district's financial health and channel scarce resources to teachers and learning, rather than bricks and buses. Seattle hasn't...