Community Alliance For Public Education

                                                           
                                                                           Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice 
                                                                  Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
I sometimes imagine the dossier all the countless letters from trustees around the province are dispatched to at the Ministry of Education and what sort of company they must be keeping.
 I assume our entire correspondence are in the same file as the eight million emails from [...]

 
                                                                                Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice
                                                                             Resist the Beginning…Consider the End
 
We have a new chair and vice chair as planned and of course there has been a bit of shuffling around to relocate the changed personnel. As usual there is much hope for improvements in the running of meetings and the dominion of the elected over the [...]

Principiis obsta…Finem respice
Resist the beginning… Consider the end
 
 
This meeting was quite the eclectic mix of the good, the bad and the ugly so this is a bit of a long commentary.
The feature presentation was the tendering of the district achievement contract – due to arrive at the ministry by July 15th and in my view [...]

 
HI There – we just finished our March CAPE meeting and it has met the expectations we all have placed on these events. We always hope to do two things – share the experience of different parts of the district and emerge with a project. As usual – not a full house but a very [...]

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

When I left the meeting on Wednesday January 21st, I was feeling pretty damn good. Given my over all experience both at the board table and with life in general this should have been a hint and a half for my ass that trouble was brewing as indeed [...]