Community Alliance For Public Education

My last column presented the measures our school district uses to shut down a small school like Yount. Now I would like to examine the formulas and policies that the ministry imposes on school boards in their drive to reshape public education in this province.
The introduction of the ‘per pupil’ funding formula only recognises headcount. [...]

Yount Elementary in Youbou lost its teacher last week despite strong opposition from the community -forcing it to become a one classroom school. This has pushed it ever closer to the school district’s goal of closure as laid out in the Comprehensive Strategic Facilities Plan passed in a closed session by the board in June [...]

Principiis obsta…Finem respice / Resist the beginning…Consider the end 

There is this great joke – a fellow murders his parents and at the end of his trial after he has been convicted and is about to be sentenced he urges the judge to show him mercy because he is, after all, an orphan. This kept running [...]