It’s not surprising that the SCDSB has decided to cut all but one of the EDP programs for 2010-11. Families don’t see the value in paying $25 a day to have before and after day-care when they had similar care the year prior for approx. $15/day.
Good News for Schools Board Meeting Update
June 24, 2010 By
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 - [...]
Budget Debate Part 1 – School Basic Budget
June 11, 2010 By
The key focus of the evening was dealing with the ever shrinking school basic budget, the potential use of locked-empty classrooms and a warning about the potential short fall this September in the funding of the Early Learning Program.
Budget Debate Part 2 – Opening classrooms
June 11, 2010 By
Opening empty/locked classrooms Does fairness mean sameness? Does equity in school facilities dictate that every school should be a duplicate of the others within a school board? On June 9th trustees debated whether it was fair to open locked classrooms in some elementary schools, when some schools had none to open. Schools differ widely in [...]
Budget Debate Part 3 ELP/ELK Shortfall
June 11, 2010 By
Early Learning Program /Early Learning Kindergarten Budget Shortfall Last January the provincial government announced the new Early Learning Program and Early Learning Full-day Kindergarten for a September 2010 start. The Ministry of Education determined which schools would have the program in 2010-2011 and promised that all elementary schools would have the ELP/ELK within four years. [...]
Budget Update – Who needs textbooks?
May 21, 2010 By
The SCDSB staff presented an overview of the 2010-11 budget on May 19, 2010 to trustees. The operating budget at $503 million reflects funding as detailed in the March 26, 2010 Ministry of Education (MOE) Memo 2010-11 Grants for Students Needs (GSN). The total value of the operating budget is a combination of a wide [...]
Special Education Funding 2010-11
May 6, 2010 By
Each year the Ontario Ministry of Education reviews the funding model with respect to Special Education. The Provincial Schools Branch and Special Education Policy and Programs Branch produce a review and communicate with Directors and Superintendents of Ontario School Boards via public memo. For the school year 2010-11 SB Memo SB_17 covers the broad explanations [...]
ELP Before/After Care – This isn’t cheap folks ! ( Part 2 )
April 27, 2010 By
At a high cost to parents and without enough spaces to meet demand, full-day kindergarten before and after care (FKBAC) is coming to Ontario this fall. This McGinty driven initiative dictates locations, numbers of pupil places, and the base-price to be charged to parents. There are not enough spaces province or county-wide to meet demand, [...]
ELP Before/After Care – This isn’t cheap folks ! (part 1 )
April 18, 2010 By
Starting in September 2010 the new Early Learning Kindergarten Program ( ELP ) and its extended before and after care components, will be introduced to 16 schools within the SCDSB. The program will roll out over the next four years under the Ministry of Education’s direction. The before and after care component includes care from [...]
French Immersion – NEW Program Should We or Shouldn’t We?
February 20, 2010 By
This past Wednesday at a SCDSB Program Committee meeting, the issue of shifting to a full French Immersion program was discussed. The concept would include replacing the current Extended French program, grades 5-8 and secondary, with a full French Immersion program grades 1-8 and secondary . The new program would start in grade 1 and [...]
