A message about the Sept 2024 update on Well-Resourced Schools: proposed closure of Green Lake Elementary in 2025

9/13/2024 5:11 pm

To our Dragon Community: 

By now you’ve most likely heard that Seattle Public Schools has launched its new Well-Resourced Schools webpages, which includes key information on school consolidation plans, timelines, a racial equity analysis, and FAQs.

There are two school consolidation plans. Both of them indicate closure of Green Lake Elementary at the end of the 2024-25 school year.

This news is still painfully fresh, and we don’t yet know what we don’t know. Your PTA Board is holding an emergency meeting this Sunday Sept 15 to discuss in depth and make a plan. We’ll do our best to help you navigate, have your voices be heard, and prepare for whatever is next. 

Know that the teachers and staff at Green Lake Elementary are not in any way responsible for this initiative; in fact, they are prohibited from discussing it with our community. Let’s respect their situation and direct our questions and conversations to the District and each other instead - and focus on helping them have the best year possible.  

For now, please: 

1. Kindly limit social media discussions and avoid giving oxygen to feelings that are already pretty intense. We need to give this a little space. The PTA will create a forum for those who want to come together and talk.
   
   
2. Watch for updates from your PTA on this website, on Facebook, and in Room Parent emails.
   
   
3. Review the content on the District’s new Well-Resourced Schools webpages, and send your informed questions and feedback to the District via Let’s Talk.
   
   
4. If you want to push for a better solution than the current proposed plans: 
1. Sign the All Together for Seattle Schools open letter, which explains how mass closures are not the solution: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_QgLI8prd75z_LD1Xn-vZjp4d-VPfnE25WzYTVYPnIQ/edit 
   
   
2. Join a planning meeting this Saturday Sept 14,12pm at Jefferson Park. Hosted by parent activist Robert Cruickshank  
   
   
3. Join the All Together for Seattle Schools rally at John Stanford Center next Wednesday Sept 18th at 3:45pm. This takes place just before the next School Board regular meeting at 4:15pm the same day

With love,

Your Dragon PTA

United We Thrive - SCPTSA Group

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United We Thrive SCPTSA Executive Board Candidates 2024-25

Volunteer at the STEM Fair!

3/6/2024 9:09 pm

WE NEED YOU! The format of our STEM Fair shifts the work of a traditional "Science Fair" off the kids and onto the adults, which makes it more equitable, but means that we rely on you, our community of parents and guardians, to make it happen!

Action alert! Please advocate for more funding for our public schools

1/9/2024 10:19 am

An important action alert from
All Together for Seattle Schools

 

The Green Lake Elementary PTA advocates for legislative priorities that align with our mission and values, as well as that of the Washington State PTA of which we are a member.

For more on advocacy, view this page from the Washington State PTA. 

We need a PTA Advocacy Rep! 
If you are interested in tracking and sharing advocacy opportunities for our community please contact us ASAP. PTApresident@greenlakedragons.org 

 

 

 

**ACTION ALERT!! The Washington State Legislature is in session as of 1/8/2024! 

Please see below for what support is needed NOW for reaching out to the Washington State Legislature to request more funding for public schools.

Schools across Washington State, including Seattle Public Schools, face growing structural budget deficits that threaten to cause huge cuts and even school closures. Seattle's projected deficit for next year is $105 million. Our state legislature can prevent this by taking action to fully fund public education during this legislative session. 

Here’s what you can do now:

1. Contact your legislators

• First, identify your legislators (link) and find their contact info

• Read the one-pager with messaging you can use or link to here.

• Or use this form email that you can personalize

2. Spread the word to other parents, caregivers, educators, and community members. Encourage them to sign up to receive our updates and follow us on Instagram 

3. Share your input with your school board directors, urging them advocate to the legislature for more school funding

• Email the Seattle School Board or yours if you are in a different district

About All Together for Seattle Schools: We are a group of parents, educators, and community members who support K-12 public education. Amply funded public schools benefit all of us, because educating today’s students is an investment in our state’s collective future.

We are a grassroots network of public school parents, mostly in Seattle. A core group of volunteers has been mobilizing since late October, and we have a big lift ahead of us over the next few months and beyond. Our main priority is to educate and mobilize public school families so that they will be heard by district and state decision-makers.

 

Reach out to us!  

Email: AllTogetherforSPS@gmail.com

Website: www.AllTogetherforSeattleSchools.org 

Follow us on Social Media: www.instagram.com/AllTogetherforSeattleSchools 

Salmon in the Schools

1/8/2023 5:42 pm

Thank you for everything, Principal Klainer

8/21/2022 12:52 pm

The Dragon PTA made a little scrapbook of thanks to show our appreciation for our amazing Principal Amy Klainer as she leaves us for new adventures. 

2022-23 School Year Welcome & Info, from Principal Klainer

8/21/2022 12:52 pm

The 2022-23 school year is about to begin! Please read this message from our Principal Amy Klainer for important information regarding start-of-school. 

Volunteer Appreciation, 2021-2022

7/7/2022 4:30 pm

Our school would be nothing without the incredible service of our staff, educators, and volunteers. We held a Volunteer Appreciation assembly at the end of the 2021-2022 school year to honor some pretty amazing folks as they move on from our community, hopefully to even bigger and better things! 

After School Enrichment 2022-23: It's Complicated

7/7/2022 3:21 pm

Green Lake Elementary prides itself on providing fun and enriching after-school activities for our students. In years past, we've had everything from golf to coding to cooking to chess taking place in the hour after school ends each day. 

The pandemic brought after school enrichment to a grinding halt. We want to bring these programs back as soon as we possibly can, but it may take some time: our vendors need to apply with the District, and as with so many other things the processes are changing and much is still up in the air. 

School Supplies: Read this first before you buy!

7/7/2022 3:05 pm

For the 2022-23 school year, GLES will be purchasing essential school supplies in bulk, and will be asking families who can afford it to pay $25/student to cover costs. This will also include the Yearbook, which will be made and printed in-house for next year.