MDA SOC AL Albert J. Wong Seattle’s School Board Election Could Shape the Next 20 Years Why your vote for Clark, Song, and Mizrahi matters more than you think.
ECO SOC AL Albert J. Wong Cracking the Budget #2: The Central Office Grew. Cutting It Won’t Save Us. SPS added 269 district-office FTE since 2014 — but strip out the recodes and restricted funding and only about 48 FTE are worth examining…
ECO SOC AL Albert J. Wong Cracking the Budget #1: Chronic Underspend Pie-chart showing that 4.2% (~50M) of the 2024–2025 comes from unused budget. In 2023–2024 where the total Budget Deficit was 80M, removing…
AL Albert J. Wong The Stranger Should Cover SPS More or Consider Not Endorsing in Seattle School Board Races Over 20 years The Stranger’s endorsees have made up 34 of 36 School Board members even though The Stranger does not cover SPS consistently.
AL Albert J. Wong The 31% No One Talks About A living reference on district staffing and the structural budget problem in Seattle Public Schools
ECO AL Albert J. Wong Manufacturing a Deficit: Why we always have 100M+ in the bank but keep having to cut staff For the past 2 years, SPS only had an actual deficit of $13M and $42M vs. the budget’s predicted deficit of $101M and $80M respectively.
MDA SOC AL Albert J. Wong Vote Song, Clark, Mizrahi for SPS [This is just my personal opinion so take it with only that much weight]