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By GORDON DELANEY Valley Bureau MIDDLETON — Alexandra Soengkono is not yet old enough to vote, but the 17-year-old student swears she’ll remember the past few days when her time comes to enter the polling station, likely in the next provincial election. “I’m going to remember this when I go and vote,” the senior student [...]
Sat, March 31 2007 » News » 104 Comments
Based on feedback, we have struck the part of proposed bylaw 22 that read that HRSB and DOE employees could not be members of the Board, and changed membership to be all parents AND any member of a school SAC, so that would include community, teacher and principal reps on the SACS. The updated proposed [...]
Tue, March 27 2007 » News » 88 Comments
The Minister of Education held a briefing a few hours ago outlining her plans to implement the School Closure Process Review Report. The remarks of the Minister and the Amendment text are available on the website, as is the review report, links are below. I will be preparing an analysis tonight and will forward that [...]
Wed, March 21 2007 » News » 95 Comments
By RICK CONRAD Education Reporter “There could be peace on supplementary funding in the Halifax region, but it would come at a price. Halifax regional municipality would cut the fund by $1.8 million and all taxpayers would pay the same rate by 2010-11. That means residents and businesses in Halifax and Dartmouth would pay less, [...]
Tue, March 20 2007 » News » 4 Comments
Please note this was updated at 8:00am to reflect that Arts and Music will be protected by the contract. BACKGROUND: There is a proposal to change Supplementary Funding that will be presented to HRM Committee of the Whole on Tuesday night (MARCH 20). There are many areas of concern with the current proposal, but simply [...]
Mon, March 19 2007 » News » 94 Comments