The plan is to replace the seismically high-risk school at West 33rd Avenue and Oak Street with a new 15,000 square meeting building at a cost of almost $80 million.
After so many years of frustration and disappointment, you’re finally feeling optimistic that with an NDP government, a court victory, and a teacher shortage you and your...
I get queasy this time of year, and not just from too much eggnog and fruitcake. It’s those photos of needy kids and wealthy, smiling donors “giving back”, and, yes, even stories...
The arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou and China's decision to arrest two Canadians has raised the stakes for school-district administrators.
Over the years, many B.C. school trustees have contacted me for advice or to clear something up they are unsure about. This year has been no different.
What people—even normally progressive and thoughtful ones—often don’t consider is that schools and school boards have as much a duty to care for the perpetrators as they do the...
Parents whose kids go to Edith Cavell elementary at West 20th Avenue and Cambie Street on Vancouver’s West Side are furious about plans to seismically upgrade the 98-year-old...
Few terms sound duller than “education funding review”, but hang on to your hats, folks: the one that’s underway at B.C.’s Ministry of Education may get interesting and heated...
