{"id":1020,"date":"2014-05-14T07:22:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2014-05-14T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T14:23:11","slug":"vancouver-schools-reject-475000-in-chevron-funding-bced-bcpoli-yteubc-edstudies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2014\/05\/14\/vancouver-schools-reject-475000-in-chevron-funding-bced-bcpoli-yteubc-edstudies\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver schools reject $475k in Chevron funding #bced #bcpoli #yteubc #edstudies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/1322891\/beleaguered-vancouver-school-board-rejects-475000-in-corporate-funding\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1021\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/files\/2014\/05\/Chevron-Pump-300x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/files\/2014\/05\/Chevron-Pump-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/files\/2014\/05\/Chevron-Pump.png 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paula Baker, <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/1322891\/beleaguered-vancouver-school-board-rejects-475000-in-corporate-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Global BC<\/em><\/a>, May 9, 2014&#8211;\u00a0It\u2019s been a tough time recently for the Vancouver School District. Trustees need to find $12 million in savings to deal with a budget deficit, last month the district\u2019s band program was almost eliminated until one-time funding was found to keep it going for another year, and in September,<a style=\"color: #2377bc !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/1320446\/vancouver-teachers-forced-to-pay-for-parking-starting-next-school-year\/\">teachers will have to pay for their own parking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Considering the budget challenges the Vancouver district is facing, many are surprised to learn that the school board turned down $475,000 from Chevron Canada \u2013 even though other districts have accepted the money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">According to Chevron spokesperson, Adrien Byrne, they were turned down by the Vancouver School District in a matter of about 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Chevron\u2019s\u00a0<em>Fuel your School<\/em>\u00a0program allows teachers to directly apply for grants with a specific focus on math, science, and technology. Chevron has 24 retail outlets in Vancouver and beginning in October, \u00a0$1 from each fill-up would go the program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Chevron says there was to be no advertising at schools, the only corporate representation will be a\u00a0<em>Fuel your School\u00a0<\/em>decal, which would be seen at the gas pumps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201cOur view is we\u2019re happy to take your funds, give it to us with no strings attached, no logo as other corporations do that,\u201d said Mike Lombardi, Vancouver School Trustee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">\u201cThey don\u2019t want to do it that way, that\u2019s fine. We\u2019ll look for other corporate sponsors who are happy to donate to our education program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Read More &amp; Video: <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/1322891\/beleaguered-vancouver-school-board-rejects-475000-in-corporate-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Global BC<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Baker, Global BC, May 9, 2014&#8211;\u00a0It\u2019s been a tough time recently for the Vancouver School District. Trustees need to find $12 million in savings to deal with a budget deficit, last month the district\u2019s band program was almost eliminated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2014\/05\/14\/vancouver-schools-reject-475000-in-chevron-funding-bced-bcpoli-yteubc-edstudies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2251,39105,2262,4069],"tags":[617412,1063369,1063374,2276],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budgets-funding","category-commercialization","category-k-12-issues","category-teachers","tag-bc-education-2","tag-budgets-funding","tag-k-12-issues","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}