Smith on Education

Capital Planning Funds – B memo stands for Broke

Caroline Smith — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:25:29 PDT

During the early part of the 2012 there was much discussion about the SCDSB capital plan priorities. In advance of a request from the Ministry of Education a wish list of capital priorities was compiled and approved by the SCDSB Board. You can download the revised capital plan here. This past week B-memo 7 [...]

Fraser Reports

Caroline Smith — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:46:28 PDT

The Fraser report comes out annually. The statistics are often portrayed by school boards in the negative when schools are ranked poorly and positively if they have schools that rank high. An estimate of their value and validity should probably be somewhere in between. Often forgotten when reviewing Fraser data is that so many factors [...]

Special Education – Parents: Board needs to lose shields simcoe.com

Caroline Smith — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:09:37 PDT

Simcoe.com By Laurie Watt Parents: Board needs to lose shields March 27 2012 BARRIE – The Simcoe County District School Board must stop its ‘dark-ages’ way of treating students with challenging behaviours and begin respecting the Ontario Human Rights Code, says its Special Education Advisory Committee chairperson. Angie Bridekirk says her committee is calling on [...]