Education Information
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 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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
The Simcoe County District School Board is seeking public input on the accommodation review process and is holding a public meeting at Stayner Collegiate Institute on Tues., Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. New policy guidelines released by the Ministry of Education in June require all school boards to be in compliance by March 31, 2010.
