JANUARY 24 - Anita Cameron Event

Join Us
Tuesday, January 24th  5:30-6:30 - online discussion Civil Rights: Disability Community and Youth with Anita Cameron and Yordanos Gebreamlak  

Kate Deccio original art of Anita Cameron a black woman wearing a black hat over her dreads in a red shirt, in the left foreground there is a photo of her wheelchair with a megaphone a wearing a purple top and jeans with an American flag and right foreground her arrested on the ground. Text : Civil Rights are not given you must fight to get them, then fight to keep them.

Anita Cameron is a Civil Rights Activist & Director of Minority Outreach for Not Dead Yet and Yordanos Gebreamlak (WA State OEO Deputy Director) joins SCPTSA in a conversation about the Disability Community and Disabled Youth. Co-President Sam Fogg will host the conversation  

  • The focus would be on disability, the disability community, and youth. 

  • Please submit questions in advance (Link)

  • If you need accommodations including language or interpretations, please reach out to president@scptsa.org 

  • ABOUT ANITA CAMERON : Anita Cameron is a Civil Rights Activist who is actively engaged in creating change and amplifying voices of the disabled people in our country. She is the director of Minority Outreach at Not Dead Yet, a grassroots, national disability rights group. 

For over 35 years, Anita’s engagement centers on the intersection of Black, Marginalized, Feminist, and Disabled people and at the forefront of Disability Rights Movements, and has been arrested over 130 times for her activism. 

She was invited to the White House on two occasions, has met three sitting U.S. Presidents and two Vice-Presidents helped to organize a national march, and was published in a book by the late award-winning writer and historian, Howard Zinn. 


You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Jan 24, 2023 05:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf--gqj0jE9EIjcPXkgJ72UFWqqkQHHmy

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10/25/2021 Special Education Staffing Shortage Update

Dear Community,

Seattle Council PTSA strives to serve as a bridge and a connector between our school communities and Seattle Public Schools. Our board meets regularly with Superintendent Jones and his team to discuss the most pressing issues students and families face and to keep district leadership accountable.

Today we had the opportunity to ask your questions and discuss the special education staffing shortage. The information below was provided by Associate Superintendent Concie Pedroza.

- SPS has lost 3,600 students in the last two years - more than 800 of those students are students receiving special education services. Staffing adjustments had to be made to keep the special education ratio agreed in the CBA.

- Staffing ratios for students receiving special education services are outlined in the current Collective Bargaining Agreement between SEA and SPS. To maintain the right ratios, special education staffing ratios MUST be reviewed every quarter. To date, this requirement has been followed quarterly.

- Special Education staff that were originally displaced were able to relocate to their original buildings except for 15 staff members districtwide. Those will be relocating to a new school within the district - nobody (classified or certified staff) has lost their job.

- The Special Education Task Force does have parent representatives from diverse racial and ability backgrounds.

If you have additional questions about this issue, please reach out to Dr Pedroza at clpedroza@seattleschools.org

In service,

Seattle Council PTSA

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