Mar 09
The blue markers represent NYC’s traditional public schools, while the red and yellow markers represent charter schools, with the chart plotting the average change in English Language Arts (ELA) scores (0 being the 50th percentile) from the end-of-year 4th grade tests (x-axis) to the end of 5th grade, the first year of middle school. Read Gary Rubinstein’s TeachForUs.org blog post for a more thorough explanation.
From The Slog. View the article here: Slog
Mar 07
The Democratic Precinct Caucuses on April 15th are your way to help choose a Democratic nominee for President and shape the future of the party, and a good way to be elected as a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
YES! I am committing to attend the Washington State Democratic Precinct Caucuses on April 15th and helping to keep a Democrat in the White House:
Commit here: http://www.wa-democrats.org/commit
Mar 07
Please forward to other groups that may be interested in attending this event!
On March 17th – we will be registering voters at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade!
– Please RSVP to Brian at bcarver1@gmail.com
– We will meet at Starbucks Coffee at 10:30am (505 5th Avenue South, Seattle, WA) so we can all head to the start of the parade together (please plan on staying until about 2-3pm)
– We will have voter registration materials, volunteer signup forms, pens, and clipboards – so just bring yourself!
– If you would like – some of us will be wearing Obama gear – you can order online: http://store.barackobama.com/
– Be sure to bring clothes to stay warm and dry
Mar 07
HB 1860
HB 1860 is on the Governor’s desk…
Good work, everyone. Our PCO bill passed the House 97 to 1, and is now awaiting the Governor’s signature.
Mar 06
From Misty Shock Rule:
The Precinct Caucuses are coming up fast, and April 15th will be here before we know it. We’re working on developing our communications plan for the caucuses, and we want to help you with yours!
With that in mind, we will be hosting an online webinar on how to use social media tools like Facebook and Twitter to publicize the caucuses. The webinar will take place next Thursday, March 15th, at 6pm. This webinar will last one hour — 45 minutes of content and 15 minutes for questions. In this webinar, we will cover not only how to use these tools to help you publicize the caucuses, but also some important tips about these important social media tools — what they are, how to use them, and how to maximize your presence. Hopefully, this information will be useful to you as we move into campaign season.
Mar 06
Dear Neighbors,
I know many of you are wondering about the recent actions that took place in the Senate late on Friday afternoon. In the coming days we’ll be learning more about the impacts of these actions, but for now I wanted to send you the statement that was released by Speaker Frank Chopp.
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Statement from Speaker Frank Chopp on the Republican actions in the Senate:
“The Senate Republicans have exercised the worst abuse of power I have ever witnessed in the legislature. It says something about them that the minute they gained power, they abused it.
“They immediately moved to run over the minority on the floor by denying them the right to even see the budget bill before asking them to vote on it.
“They immediately turned their backs on the rights of the people by dismissing all calls for public testimony. Yes, the party that regularly decries the lack of transparency in the legislature cut the public out of the process completely.
“As for their budget proposal, from what little we’ve heard, it shreds the safety net, eliminates state food assistance, housing and medical care for the disabled, and continues the Republican war on women by eliminating family planning grants.”
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Mar 05
From The Atlantic:
During this election cycle, I’m sure many of you will want some sort of data to back up claims while debating / convincing people Obama’s actually done a decent job with the economy. The Atlantic posted a series of slides that the Treasury Department put together to show the state of the economy. Below’s a slide… the rest are at their site.
The rest are here: The Atlantic
Mar 04
Are you registered to vote? Do you need to change your information or find information about your candidates or ballot measures? It’s early, but it never hurts to check to see if your information is correct.
Mar 04
Organizing for America is doing a series of courses for their boot camp. Sorry about the late notice on this, but I just received the info. There are still plenty of courses left. I’ve attached the flyer for details: OFA Night School 2 0 Flyer
The next course if on Tuesday, March 6th.
Register for the courses here:
Video:
http://OFA.BO/WANightSchoolVideo
Audio:
http://OFA.BO/WANightSchoolAudio
Mar 02
After the website upgrade, your RSS feeds won’t function correctly anymore. Hopefully, you have seen this message. The new link to follow via our RSS feed is: https://www.11thlddems.org/feed/
Feb 29
The City of Seattle is offering leadership training with a focus on developing young leaders, especially among minority communities. More information is included in the following word document / brochure (pdf).
Feb 28
I’ve changed the way events are posted to the 11th LD website. Instead of following via RSS, our events are now posted to a Google Calendar. You can view it here:
Feb 28
Since a few of us 11th LD members are also residents of South Park, here you go:
To document construction of the new South Park Bridge, the King County Road Services Division is working with University of Washington professor and historic building documentary photographer John Stamets. The photos can be found here:
Feb 27
The website is back online. I’ve made some slight changes to the layout and I’ll have to recategorize posts that didn’t transfer their posts together. We are now hosted on Dreamhost! http://dreamhost.com/
