# Seattle Public Schools Special Board Meeting - November 04, 2026


**Body:** Seattle Public Schools Board Meetings
**Date:** November 03, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Education, Information Technology, Digital Infrastructure


Seattle Public Schools Board special meeting, November 4, 2026. The board received an informational study-session presentation on multilingual, special education, and highly capable services, including student outcomes, staffing flexibility, and program access. Staff reported that the district had again received an IDEA determination level 1 and had recorded three consecutive years with no significant disproportionality. The discussion focused on instructional practices and service delivery; no procurement action or spending vote was taken in this portion of the meeting.

The second study session addressed educational technology, student screen use, AI literacy, cybersecurity, and software governance. Staff described a centralized software-review and approval process covering instructional value, duplication, cost, data privacy, cybersecurity, and accessibility, with approved tools entered into a district catalog and enterprise licensing considered where appropriate. The superintendent said the review had identified approximately $200,000 in savings over the prior two months through eliminating unnecessary purchases and shifting eligible technology costs from the general fund to the capital levy. The district also planned to stop issuing take-home devices to grades 3–5 as a blanket practice, while allowing case-by-case access, and announced blocks on YouTube for K–5 and Minecraft and Gemini AI on student devices beginning the following Monday. These operational changes and the centralized review process may shape future technology purchases and vendor opportunities; no contract awards or related votes were reported.

**Source:** Seattle Public Schools Board Meetings