PinnedAlbert J. Wong·Aug 13Cracking the Budget #3: Non-Compensation SpendingSPS pays out about $179M a year in “Purchased Services” — the OSPI “Object” category that holds basically every contract the district…
PinnedAlbert J. Wong·Jul 29Cracking 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…A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedAlbert J. Wong·Nov 12, 2025The Stranger Should Cover SPS More or Consider Not Endorsing in Seattle School Board RacesOver 20 years The Stranger’s endorsees have made up 34 of 36 School Board members even though The Stranger does not cover SPS consistently.
Albert J. Wong·Oct 25, 2025Cracking the Budget #1: Chronic UnderspendPie-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…
Albert J. Wong·Oct 24, 2025Seattle’s School Board Election Could Shape the Next 20 YearsWhy your vote for Clark, Song, and Mizrahi matters more than you think.
Albert J. Wong·Jul 25, 2025Vote Song, Clark, Mizrahi for SPS[This is just my personal opinion so take it with only that much weight]
Albert J. Wong·Jun 9, 2025Manufacturing a Deficit: Why we always have 100M+ in the bank but keep having to cut staffFor 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.
Albert J. Wong·Apr 28, 2025The 31% No One Talks AboutA living reference on district staffing and the structural budget problem in Seattle Public SchoolsA response icon2A response icon2
Albert J. Wong·Feb 25, 2025SPS 2025 Budget Open QuestionsComing out of the whole Well Resourced Schools disaster, it has become clear that something about how the SPS Staff and the School Board…
Albert J. Wong·Nov 17, 2024Recalculated: “Fab-4” School Closure Savings — it’s smallExecutive summary
