Education Information
The Board meeting continued last evening, the content was the unfinished business from the March 24th meeting. This full meeting went almost nine hours. Issues of Interest : ARC Policy 2313 was passed with amendments. The full policy should be available publicly shortly on SCDSB website. Transportation policy was referred back to committee for further [...]
The Collingwood Elementary Attendance Area Review (AAR-C), and the new Essa Secondary Attendance Area Review (AAR-E), were passed at the Simcoe County District School Board (SCDSB) March 24, 2010 Board meeting. I want to thank all the people who shared their thoughts and viewpoints with respect to both reviews. Tough choices had to be made [...]
* The Attendance Review plans for Collingwood, Essa and Barrie/BearCreek were passed
The complete package for monthly board meetings ( SCDSB ) are historically posted the Monday prior to the Board meeting. Sometimes these packages are large in size – this month’s is 186 pages in length. The full report is available on the SCDSB website – here. (link in main post) I have pulled out a [...]
“In the end the staff recommendation moves 95 students. The number of bused students remains the same as current levels, and the recommendation importantly does not increase these numbers, and has the potential long term to decrease them.
The Attendance Area Review recommendations for the new Essa Secondary Schoo are under discussion March 09th. The report can be found on the Board website ( link). Reports (PDF)
It was suggested that the Georgian Meadows student body be moved to Admiral Collingwood P.S. and as such further reduce the student numbers at Mountain View.
The offical staff recommendation on the Collingwood attendance area review is now out. The full facility report can be found in the main March 3, 2010 Facility Meeting package Report FAC-D-6 page 31 in this grouping. Report FAC-D-6 March 3, 2010 AAR Collingwood ( pdf Report only)
This past week saw the release of the new guidelines from the Ministry of Education on encouraging facility partnerships. The guidelines have the same weight as regulation and are direction to school boards across the province to work, with a wide variety of potential partners, to solve the student school overcapacity issues. ENG 2010 B1 [...]
The first of two scheduled public meetings, on the topic of the Attendance Area Review for the new Essa Secondary School, took place on Feb. 11th. The presentation from the SCDSB is available here (EssaAttendanceAreaPresentation SCDSB Feb. 11 2010). In addition, the following news story ran in the Alliston Herald and gives an overview flavour [...]
