Education Information
Last night’s Board meeting included deputations and a lengthy debate on the motion to rescind the Moral Education in Schools Policy (4150). The pubic deputations voiced concern over the content of the revised Policy 4150 and requested that the Board review the policy and make changes. There was also points made about the breadth of [...]
The “Revised” New Ontario Health Curriculum for grades 1-8 was recently made available to the public. There was a great deal of discussion about the report’s content when it was first released last April. At issue was whether the newly added sex education component was appropriate, if so at what age should the information be [...]
Collingwood/Clearview Trustee Caroline Smith blamed the province for failing to adequately fund the new program, which forced school boards to charge non-competitive fees.
“The Ministry of Education and Premier Dalton McGuinty sat down and created a plan for early learning, but they didn’t make a plan on how to pay for it. They downloaded it to the school boards, and we don’t have the money,” she said.
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 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 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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
