News & Events

Don’t have time to attend or watch an entire school board meeting? You can stay up to date with this SESEC information resource! Upcoming Meetings Updates from SPS [..]

Starting November 1, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will run out of funding due to the government shutdown. Despite a ruling that the Trump administratio[..]

The Seattle Education Forum 2025 was a free, community-led gathering designed to bring families, students, and neighbors into authentic conversation face-to-face with candidat[..]

Chanel Hall, M.S., participated in SESEC’s flagship program, Advocacy and Policy Cohort, in 2017 when she worked at Techbridge Girls as the program coordinator. In 2018, she[..]

The Strategies that Work series highlights impactful programming that has supported Southeast Seattle students and beyond. As the November ballot gets closer, the Families, Ed[..]

In the 2023–24 school year, a student's fatal shooting at Garfield High School reignited calls to bring School Resource Officers back. During an SPS Board Meeting, students,[..]

That’s why I’m so honored to share our 2025 SESEC Summit Graphic, a visual representation of our shared vision, grounded in the wisdom and truth spoken by our community. T[..]

The issues we face today are immense and complicated. Climate change, growth of AI and other technology, social media, wars and ethnic cleansing (and genocide), wealth dispar[..]

As summer comes to an end, SESEC is highlighting three member organizations and their youth programs, which have supported students in gaining new skills. Below are descriptio[..]

hat standardized testing shouldn’t do is serve as the primary measure for school quality, student growth/learning, teacher quality, etc.  So, what are possible meaningful a[..]

Standardized testing is already quite culturally unresponsive, for example, test questions on U.S. slavery focus more on economics rather than the dehumanization of enslavemen[..]