Community Alliance For Public Education

Recently and not for the first time, a proposal has been raised at the school board table to reduce the number of trustees to seven from the current nine. The stated intention is to lead by example and show a willingness on the part of trustees to diminish community voice in order to save approximately [...]

We had our monthly CAPE meeting at my place last night(May 25 2009) starting at 5 pm -well a few minutes after- we had to chat and fuss over the cats. We had 7 people there and those present gave new meaning to the term ‘quality over quantity’.
We acknowledged that the pressures this year that [...]

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

So apparently there is an ‘elephant in the room’ (I shall have to stop wearing horizontal stripes) – and one trustee was so brave that she was willing to slyly refer to CAPE as the main reason why she herself could not support a motion to create a [...]

Working people standing up and demanding the constitutional enshrinement of full protection for all public services, including education, health and infrastructure, in a manner that cannot be disabled by any government.
This would be similar in form to our guarantees of civil rights in the Charter of Rights and placed in law in such a way [...]

CAPE has stated clearly that providing good working conditions for school staff is important in achieving quality learning conditions for our children.
CAPE believes deeply in the proud trade union tradition of advancing the broader needs of our communities and will continue to press for democratic community control of our public institutions.
CAPE supports a progressive educational [...]