Dying to come to a SCDSB Board meeting but just can’t make it. Never fear the school board streams live the monthly board meeting and keeps an archive of past meetings on the SCDSB website.
February 20, 2012
What’s Up ! Feb 2012 Board Meeting
The March Board meeting includes 2 Attendance Area Reviews along with the Captial Plan 2012 and the school calendar for 2012-13. Presentations coming to Board include concerns over the moving of the Special Needs classroom(s) at Mapleview Heights Elementary School in Barrie.
June 28, 2011
Books to Digital Texts the New Direction
First text books by school text-book publishers are now going digital only. This follows years of a demographic downward slope in student numbers, coupled with two years of cuts [in Ontario] in text-book funding. US sales of K-12 textbooks dropped 16.9% in 2011, year over year. In this environment McGraw-Hill launched its first all-digital, cloud-based [...]
June 4, 2011
Principal Allocation Cut for Duntroon
This past week the SCDSB Human Resources committee staff announced the allocation for principals and vice-principals for the 2011-12 school year. The following are the key changes to Area 5 SCDSB elementary schools. Of particular note is the cutting of the principal allocation at Duntroon Central PS. Duntroon is one of the schools in the [...]
May 29, 2011
Year 3 Roll-out List SCDSB FDK
Early Learning Program will be added to the following schools for year 3 of the roll out MOE Site Selection Conformation March 2, 2011 ( download full memo and list for Ontario) Simcoe County District School Board • Allandale Heights Public School • Ardagh Bluffs Public School • Brechin Public School • Connaught Public School [...]
May 29, 2011
Where is the money for FDK – after the election?
Capital funding announcements for the Full Day Kindergarten program, were announced in April in SB-09, for the upcoming budget year. It looks good, it sounds good, but does it fall short? Is this all a bit of smoke and mirrors? Where will the money be for the expensive renovations needed next year, after the election? [...]
May 17, 2011
Budget 2011-12 draft
The info on the 2011-12 budget is out. The package is up for discussion this Wed May 18th. It is anticipated that the final budget will be approved at the end of June.
March 13, 2011
Give Your Input into Policy : Homework, Cheating, Lowest Mark
Twitter: Follow-up @Smith_Caroline : Give your input into #SCDSB #homework, cheating, & marking policies. On-line survey deadline March 16 http://ow.ly/4dqxn Time is running out to provide input into three key policies tied to student success. March 16th is the last day to give input. The staff report compiling the data will be presented at the [...]
February 28, 2011
Ready Set JK ( incl. video)
The SCDSB is currently registering students for the Junior & Senior Kindergarten programs for fall 2011. Children must be 4 years of age by Dec. 31, 2011 to enter JK. There are currently 88 public elementary schools throughout the county (map pdf) . A school search by area is available on the SCDSB website [...]
