“This is a scary time for us, because we don’t know what’s happening,” said a deaf mother of two students at TOPS K-8, a school that is on the chopping block.
SEATTLE — Amid a budget crisis, Seattle Public Schools leaders are considering closing up to 21 schools, and one of them is TOPS, the only K-8 school in the district with a program for the deaf and hard of hearing.
But at Wednesday’s public Seattle Public Schools board meeting on the topic, the board did not provide something essential for those families: an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter.
Laura Gramer, her husband Brendan,
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