“Leadership at Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is not leveling with the public that the district is quietly and relentlessly moving towards closing many of our neighborhood schools. This move to shutter schools is the wrong policy direction and will only hurt kids, families, and neighborhoods.”

-Ben Gitenstein, Post-Alley, September 2023

The Seattle Times editorial board recommends: Ben Gitenstein for Seattle School Board District 3

“Effective school board members must be knowledgeable enough to ask hard questions without micromanaging district officers. It’s a difficult balance. Gitenstein appears most likely to hit it, with his appetite for real talk about school safety, finances and the fact that Seattle schools — where fewer than 25% of Black students met standards last year — are “on track to become something much smaller in ambition and vision” than ever before..”