First text books by school text-book publishers are now going digital only. This follows years of a demographic downward slope in student numbers, coupled with two years of cuts [in Ontario] in text-book funding. US sales of K-12 textbooks dropped 16.9% in 2011, year over year. In this environment McGraw-Hill launched its first all-digital, cloud-based [...]
June 16, 2011 The Special Board meeting on the Clearview Elementary ARC resulted in the June 2012 closure of Duntroon Central. Key pieces of the final motion that was approved by the Board include an Attendance Area Review and an Extended French Feasibility study; both starting in the fall of 2011. In addition students [...]
This past week the SCDSB Human Resources committee staff announced the allocation for principals and vice-principals for the 2011-12 school year. The following are the key changes to Area 5 SCDSB elementary schools. Of particular note is the cutting of the principal allocation at Duntroon Central PS. Duntroon is one of the schools in the [...]
Capital funding announcements for the Full Day Kindergarten program, were announced in April in SB-09, for the upcoming budget year. It looks good, it sounds good, but does it fall short? Is this all a bit of smoke and mirrors? Where will the money be for the expensive renovations needed next year, after the election? [...]
