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Small schools superior: study JULIA KILPATRICK Special to The Daily News One B.C. communitys(sic) fight to protect local schools holds promise for proponents of keeping small schools open in Halifax. Parents who opposed plans to close eight schools in Coquitlam, a municipality east of Vancouver, commissioned a study on the value of small schools. Read [...]
Wed, February 14 2007 » News » Comments Off
By MARILLA STEPHENSON “THERE IS GOOD to be found in Education Minister Karen Casey’s plans to change the process under which schools are reviewed for potential closure.But there’s no denying that the drawn-out timelines provide a timely political duck for the Tory minority government. It is an old political strategy to call for a study [...]
Sat, February 10 2007 » News » 4 Comments
“Other than Sunday shopping, few issues in Nova Scotia trigger as much emotion as the closing of a school. Tempers flare, public meetings are packed and when a beloved institution of learning is forced to close its doors, it can be like losing a member of the family. Probably the most traumatic school closing in [...]
Sat, February 10 2007 » News » 93 Comments
By AMY SMITH Provincial Reporter “School closures in Nova Scotia are on the backburner until 2008, perhaps even 2009, the education minister said Thursday. Karen Casey said that if a school board wants to put a school under review for possible closure, it will have to do so over the span of a year, starting [...]
Fri, February 9 2007 » News » 143 Comments
By CHRIS LAMBIE Staff Reporter “Politics can get messy, but that’s no reason to fire an elected school board, argues a lawsuit filed Thursday. Seven members of the deposed Halifax regional school board have asked a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge to give them their jobs back.” The ChronicleHerald.ca
Fri, February 9 2007 » News » 138 Comments