The punch may have landed on the Vancouver School Board but make no mistake; BC Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid just took a swing at every school board in the province. The Minister’s imposition of the province’s Comptroller General as a budget cop for the Vancouver school board sends a clear message to other school districts. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'school boards'
Message to school boards: Shut the hell up
April 15th, 2010 · Keith Reynolds · 5 Comments · Education, Provincial budget & finance
School funding an election issue at the local level
April 30th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Children & youth, Education
It hasn’t particularly reached the level of a provincial election issue, but school funding is quietly percolating along as an issue at the local level. The provincial election overlaps with the time that school boards set their budgets and many of those school boards are making cuts due to lack of funding. A few examples? [...]
Tags: budget·Education·school boards·schools·service cuts·teachers
