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Accountability is not a slogan. For a school board it means three plain things: explain the budget in language families can follow, publish what was cut and why, and report honestly on whether last year's promises were kept. SD62 families should not have to read a 200-page document to find out what changed in their child's school.
Read the full articleTeachers and education assistants in SD62 do not need another thank-you letter. They need enough adults in the building, funding that matches the support students are entitled to, and a board that asks them what is going wrong before deciding what to fix. Across British Columbia, provincial funding covered only 72 per cent of what districts actually spent on inclusive education in 2023-24, a $340 million gap.
Read the full articleSchool safety has to cover everyone in the building, students, teachers, education assistants and support staff. WorkSafeBC reports that both the number of claims and the injury rate related to workplace violence in British Columbia's K-12 schools rose steadily between 2015 and 2019. At the same time, SD62 buildings run at about 112 per cent of capacity, with roughly 11 per cent of students taught in portables. Crowding and safety are the same conversation.
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