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UBC Faculty Association - FOCUS Newsletter - sent to ALL UBC Professors
"Your Forum: How the Local Public Schools Crisis can
Affect your Job & What UBC can Do about It"
" UBC has had
a hand in creating the very problem
in the public schools that now threatens its own faculty recruitment & retention process."
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ThinkCity - ThinkSchools conference on April 6th -
To view their poster click GET IT or visit their website at http://www.thinkcity.ca/current/schools,
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LANDS! (Let’s Agree Not to Dispose of Schools!)
- Rally at the Provincial Legislature – April 7, 2008 at 11:30 am
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An article downloaded from Janet Steffenhagen's
webpage (Vancouver Sun) on the benefits of small schools.
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Response from the Ministry of Education - Assistant Deputy Minister regarding parent appeal for help with school closure issue - basically "As this school planning process is within the Board’s jurisdiction, the Ministry of Education will not intervene."
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2003 Minutes from a University Neighbours Association
(UNA) meeting where Henry Ahking (VSB Planning) iis
quoted as saying that "the high school is not
so obviously necessary, because many families with
small kids will eventually move to other neighborhoods."
An interesting bit of history
"VSB has a fair bit of experience with such
forecasts and is reasonably confident as to its predictions.
New developments generally cannot meet demand for
schools. It is an indicator of a successful community.
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| Challenges
with Siesmic Mitigation process. View email from the
Gorden Elementary School Parent Advisory Chair to VSB,
following meeting with Henry Ahking at VSB on Dec 7th |
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For
those who do not have a copy yet, here is the actual
Phase 1 document that covers the proposals relating
to the closure of QEA. - 44 page document
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VSB Website
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Trustees
may want to see the official VSB Form filled in to
prove feedback
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"VSB Board Highlights:
From the board meeting of the Vancouver School Board",
Monday, December 20, 2004: --- "French Immersion
registration improved"
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Implementation recommendations
for Plan 2013 (April 30, 2004) -(Department of Canadian
Heritage)
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Action Plan for Official Languages
(Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat--abstract)
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French-Immersion Education
in Canada May 17, 2007
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Save QEA Blog
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Letter from Stephen Owen's
office, UBC, to clarify their position on the issue
of QEA closing and the construction of a new school
on campus.
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Support of Public Education - weblog set up by parent
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