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Long school closure process is hard on school communities

December 19, 2009 – 11:46 pm

Please read my School Watch column about the recently-concluded, long-extended school closure process in Maple Ridge, BC - published in the Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows Times on Friday (Dec. 18th)
Process punishing to schools
A week and a half ago, I reported on the public board of education meeting and the decision by trustees to close two elementary schools.
During the same meeting, the annual SOFI report was presented to school trustees. It wasn’t posted on the school district website the next day and I finally got around to reading it last Wednesday.
This document is an interesting catalogue of salaries and expenses [...]

By Katherine Wagner | Posted in SD42 Board of Education | Also tagged expenses, school watch, SOFI report, trustee | Comments (0)

Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows trustees vote to close two schools

December 9, 2009 – 10:22 pm

It was a long time coming - three years in fact - but the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Board of Education finally made a decision to close two elementary schools at its public meeting this evening.
The evening began with a tense annual organizational meeting, while about fifty parents and teachers from Mount Crescent Elementary gathered in the gallery waiting to learn the fate of their school.

By Katherine Wagner | Posted in SD42 Board of Education | Also tagged conflict of interest, politics, public education funding, school trustee, SD42 Board of Education | Comments (3)