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 [...]
New ARC Policy
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 [...]
New Partnership Guidelines B Memo MOE
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 [...]
New Minister of Education announced Leona Dombrowsky
Premier Dalton McGuinty has announced a shuffle in his cabinet yesterday. The new Minister of Education will be Leona Dombrowsky. Happily, for Clearview Collingwood and Simcoe County, the new Minister comes from the Agriculture Ministry and has a good handle on the importance of rural schools.
Full Day Learning – Collingwood / Clearview Phase One
The Ministry of Education today released the list of phase 1 schools included in Full-day Learning Program. In the Collingwood/Clearview area the schools included in phase 1 ( Sept. 2010 start ) will be: SCDSB Admiral Collingwood Elementary School Clearview Meadows Elementary School ( Stayner) SMCDSB St. Mary’s Catholic School in Collingwood For a full [...]


