Seattle Public Schools superintendent José Banda is trying to appease angry parents from one school by pissing off parents at another.
After renting their North Queen Anne building from the school district for 28 years, the nonprofit Northwest Center Kids school has been evicted to make room for the rapidly growing Seattle school population, and the Cascade Parenting Partnership is slated to move into that space this summer. But while parents and staff at the Northwest Center have begged the district for more time to adapt—since the replacement site the district offered them is inadequate for their physically and developmentally disabled students—Banda has been mostly uncommunicative since they were given the boot.
But at a quickly assembled meeting on February 26, Banda met with Cascade’s parents to offer a solution to the Northwest Center problem. What’s his big idea?