It's getting increasingly certain that Seattle Schools, confronted with a large shortfall and a rapidly souring economy, is facing with another round of school closures.
The latest discussion seems to be focused on either closing or merging Summit K-12 and AS #1 in order to clear space for more students in the Northeast cluster. There's active resistance to closing Summit K-12 (as you'd expect from a school with a supercharged PTA), and one could probably expect the same resistance from AS #1 parents.
Meanwhile, the overcrowding problems continue. Rumor has it when Seattle Schools closed a number of north end schools in 2006 their demographic projections didn't factor in a baby boomlet that happened around the same time, resulting in the overcrowding we're seeing in the north Seattle school clusters.
