Education Information
This past board meeting ( June 23rd) a motion to revise the ARC B (Norther Secondary Schools) decision came on to the floor. The motion from Trustees Halbert and Lloyd asked that ARC B be reopened and Penetanguishene Secondary School be closed. I my opinion this was the wrong solution to a real problem. The motion failed 6: 6.
Good News for Schools Closed classrooms will open up for French core programming, where locked classrooms exist. This is going to be very positive for both students and teachers. This change will support core French but also allow for other uses of the home classrooms while students are in French Class. School Basic Budget - [...]
The Simcoe County District School Board (SCDSB) has started the process of developing the membership list for the 2010-11 Accommodation Review Committees for Clearview Twp. Elementary schools and Barrie Secondary Schools. Information on the process for nomination of members was sent out to schools. school councils, municipal councils and local news outlets this past week. [...]
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 [...]
At the SCDSB Facility Standing Committee of March 9th 2010, the new ARC Policy came to the table for discussion. It is an important policy as it updates the current policy 2313 with the new June 2009 Ontario Accommodation Review Guidelines. However it does much more than just that – it modifies some previous expectations tied to optimum school baseline criteria and shifts participation within the ARC process.
The Accommodation Review Committee Guidelines were revised by the Ontario Ministry of Education in June 2009. Changes in the guidelines were required to be reflected in revised policy by March 31, 2010. The policy under review can be found on the SCDSB web site ( link ). The revised document will be coming to the [...]
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 [...]
Trustee convinces school board to rethink ARC process By Shawn Giilck Enterprise Bulletin Dec. 04,2009 The schools in Clearview Township can breathe a little easier for the moment as the accommodation review process by the Simcoe County District School Board has been dropped. Trustee Caroline Smith introduced the motion to drop the review process in [...]
Clearview Township’s deputy mayor, Alicia Savage, was at the meeting and ecstatic about the board’s decision to stop the ARC process.
Savage, a member of the Clearview ARC, had pushed to halt the ARC’s work until the new provincial guidelines could be incorporated into the board’s new policy.
“Caroline Smith pulled off the impossible,” Savage said. “We are truly fortunate to have her in our community. She really gets it and she really cares.”
The deputy mayor also praised members of the ARC, including co-chair Stephanie Davenport, for pressing to use the new guidelines and trustees who took the request to heart.
In a telephone interview Thursday, Smith said she was amazed by what happened the night before.
She praised members of the now disbanded ARC for pushing the board on the issue of the provincial guidelines.
