Education and the 2009 budget – Report Card It’s always a challenge in the lockup to figure out what money is “new” and what has been announced previously. Take the capital spending, for example. The budget promises $1.3 billion over three years to replace, renovate or expand K-12 facilities (including seismic upgrades). But as we […]
Guest commentary by Eric Mazzi, QEA Parent First I want to summarize why this is a crisis. Three U-Hill students testified last week to Trustees about the atrocious learning conditions (e.g. sitting on dirty floors, denied opportunities for science classes, etc.). Particularly poignant to me were the young women students at U-Hill who testified in […]
Rebuild U Hill: An Urgent Message!!! June 10th and 11th Public Meeting An Urgent Message from the University Hill Secondary and Elementary PAC Executives, the University Neighbourhoods Association Schools Action Committee, Dear Fellow Parents, Guardians and UBC/UEL Residents, The Vancouver School Board (“VSB”) has heard from many parents about the shockingly inadequate school facilities in […]
Nanaimo Edutopia: The Saddest Day in the History of K-12 education in Nanaimo Closing schools is a difficult decision to make. In Nanaimo the Board of Education was able to make a hard decision that will contribute to better over all school facilities.
Senior management recommended deferring the decision to rebuilding university area schools at last night’s (Wed. March 5, 2008) meeting. In a carefully prepared report senior management answered many of the complaints raised by QEA activists regarding the original plan. The report also addresses the serious concerns that parents living in the university area have raised […]
This video was produced by U Hill Secondary students for the VSB Trustees meeting on February 11, 2008. A playlist of this and related videos from U Hill can be found here.
Members of the University Neighbourhoods Board of Directors passed a strongly worded motion February 12, 2008 in support of rebuilding schools west of Blanca in the University areas. Strongly supported by resident directors Mike Feeley and Sharon Wu, the Board voted 5 to 1 to urge the Vancouver School Board to get on with it […]
In the educational facilities review discussion ongoing in Vancouver it’s a shame that the discussion is being turned from educational needs of our children to a focus on UBC’s role as developer. UBC is cast as in someway being negligent by creating much needed and relatively affordable places for people to live. In other parts […]
Facebook | Rebuild U Hill From the facebook group description: The Vancouver School Board is in the process of reviewing schools in the UBC/Dunbar area of the schools district. Students living west of Blanca are terribly served by the Vancouver School Board. We like our schools, but consider the following: The elementary school is over […]
Late Friday afternoon, a month after Ministry of Education staff put the U Hill rebuilding plan on hold, Liberal MLA Colin Hansen announced a major infrastructure program for Vancouver School Board that includes rebuilding U Hill Secondary and constructing a new elementary school. We are all appreciative of this announcement. It’s been a long time […]