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By Jenn on April 20, 2012
Read the latest news on the Vancouver Board of Education and the new Education budget from The Vancouver Sun here. Vancouver Sun article by By Janet Steffenhagen, Vancouver Sun April 12, 2012 © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun
By Jenn on April 19, 2012
Read a North Vancouver teacher’s proposal for quality B.C. education and his opinion on the BCTF‘s action plan: Full article from the Vancouver Sun’s Education Blog, The Report Card here. Vancouver Sun article by Janet Steffenhagen: April 15, 2012. 3:32 pm • Section: Report Card, STAFF © The Vancouver Sun
By Jenn on April 17, 2012
Is Our Education System Headed for Success or Failure? Review the Vancouver Sun’s Education Blog The Report Card for today’s forum of the future of education in British Columbia. The forum is free: register here. Guest speakers: Charles Ungerleider, former Deputy Education Minister and University of B.C. education professor Paul Shaker, former Education Dean and Professor Emeritus […]
By Jenn on April 10, 2012
Read the latest education news and opinions from the Vancouver Sun Education blog, The Report Card, by Janet Steffenhagen here. Here is an opinion from the one of the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association Trustee Directors on Bill 22 and its effect on BC education here. © The Vancouver Sun
By Jenn on April 5, 2012
The Vancouver School Board is has an article on the public opinion’s effect on the future of public education in Vancouver. Find out more here. Vancouver School Board Sectoral Review: Our Schools, Our Programs, Our Future pdf here.
By Jenn on April 4, 2012
The Ministry of Education has put money saved during the BC teacher’s strike towards a learning fund. Read the full Tyee “The Hook” blog here. Written by Katie Hyslop April 2, 2012 02:45 pm. “Katie Hyslop reports on education and youth-issues for the Tyee Solutions Society“. © The Tyee News
By Jenn on March 28, 2012
Post-secondary institutions have sent a stern letter to the B.C. government in response to the recent provincial budget, which ordered them to trim administrative spending by $70 million in 2013-14 and 2014-15. “It is critical for government to understand that the $70 million reduction to institutional grants over the last two years of the fiscal […]
By Jenn on March 27, 2012
Years of failed negotiations offer government solutions, say former union leaders. If you need proof that history repeats itself, look no further than the contract negotiations between the provincial government and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation. Since the New Democratic Party government pushed bargaining from the local to provincial level in 1995, there’s only been one successfully negotiated […]
By Jenn on March 26, 2012
The B.C. Teachers’ Federation has warned the Liberal government to radically change its approach to public education or face more protests by teachers, including the possibility of a provincewide shutdown of public schools. “Our members are angry,” union president Susan Lambert told a news conference a day after she was re-elected to head the organization […]
By Jenn on March 21, 2012
The BC Teachers’ Federation executive committee elections this morning saw incumbent President Susan Lambert keep her position, beating out challenger Rick Guenther by 429 votes to 238. Lambert, a teacher librarian who began her teaching career in Prince Rupert in the early 1970s, has been president of the teachers’ union since 2010. Lambert ran as […]