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Patti Bacchus: VSB mini schools have a major problem

Why are we making kids compete for opportunities, and creating winners and losers?

Patti Bacchus: School trustees need to listen to parents

If locally elected school boards can't or don't do the job they're elected to do, they might disappear.

Patti Bacchus: How to tame your school trustee

Here’s how you can shut those darned elected trustees up.

Patti Bacchus: BCTF still hopes for deal as it prepares for the worst

The BCTF appears to be ready to accept government’s bargaining mandate of a two percent per year wage increase over three years.

Patti Bacchus: Should high school start later?

Experts say teens should get at least nine hours of sleep each night, but only a small fraction of them do on “school nights”. Biological changes shift adolescent sleep cycles...

Patti Bacchus: Are we paying B.C. school superintendents too much?

How much is too much when it comes to paying public-school superintendents?

Patti Bacchus: Checking in on 21st century learning

B.C.’s education system has much room for improvement, but it’s better than most.

Patti Bacchus: Thank your child’s teacher this holiday season

When it comes to showing your appreciation for teachers and others who support your kids at school, it truly is the thoughts and the words that count.

Patti Bacchus: Ban school phone bans

It’s easy to ban things for groups that have less power than you have, and for as long as I can remember, adults have clamoured to inflict various bans on school kids, because,...

Patti Bacchus: School trustees need to prove they matter

B.C. school boards increasingly seem to be relinquishing their leadership roles to their district managers and becoming less accountable and responsive to those they are elected...