My suggestion for new Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is to shift her priorities to actually reforming schools. I fear her ambitious affordability agenda will run into funding problems, particularly now that the city and Seattle Schools are deep in debt. Her civic agenda could be a formula for a slow erosion of her popularity. As it happens, there is a strong agenda for change in a key aspect of Wilsonian equality — improving Seattle public schools, starting with school boards. She could be the education mayor.
The way to start is to improve dramatically the Seattle School Board, from which reform will flow. Making its slow way in the Legislature is a package that would do that. It’s been cooked up by a group of educational reformers (including some previous reformist board members). Soon, these ideas will surface in the Legislature, and they need a boost from the new mayor.
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