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The district has 22,000 current or recent English learners

The first day of classes at Seattle Public Schools Wednesday was cancelled and teachers are on strike over issues that include pay, mental health support, and staffing ratios for special education and multilingual students.

New Math Policies Would Hurt Gifted Students Commentary Perhaps Alan Erisman, who headed a team of applied mathematicians at Boeing, sums up the education of numbers best. Erisman, author of the upcoming book “The Math Myth,” says, “If we taught English the way we teach math, students would spend all their time doing spelling tests and diagramming sentences but never read a great book or ever read poetry.” That seems to be one of the issues the California’s Instructional Quality Commi...