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Okanagan Similkameen School District
Candidate continues to fight for a new vote in Osoyoos school trustee byelection
PENTICTON – A candidate in last month’s Okanagan Similkameen School District byelection for Osoyoos school…
Error in Osoyoos school trustee byelection sparks call for provincial intervention
PENTICTON – Questions about voters’ rights are being raised after a recent decision by the…
Weekend byelection to elect Osoyoos school trustee
OSOYOOS – A byelection to replace a retiring school trustee in the Okanagan Similkameen School…
Province comes up with plan to save South Okanagan schools from closure
PENTICTON – Just when it appeared all hope was lost, the province has announced new…
School board decides to close Osoyoos Secondary School
RCMP ESCORT SCHOOL TRUSTEES FROM MEETING OSOYOOS – People were yelling and screaming at trustees…
Okanagan Similkameen School District trustees comment on ‘back of the napkin’ school funding from province
OLIVER – The province’s recently announced Rural Education Enhancement Fund has saved Osoyoos Secondary School…
Osoyoos Secondary school to receive rural education funds
PENTICTON – Osoyoos Secondary will benefit from a new rural education fund. The Ministry of…
Okanagan Similkameen school board to apply for rural school funds
PENTICTON – Osoyoos Secondary School will stay open if recently announced funding is approved for…
Provincial funds not enough to change Okanagan Similkameen School District closure scenario
OSOYOOS – An announcement of little more than $118,000 falls short of being able to…
Funding not enough to keep Osoyoos Secondary open: trustee
OSOYOOS – It’s too soon to say for certain what impact today’s provincial school funding…
Meeting called to calm concerns about threatening letter found at schools
PENTICTON – While investigators try to figure who is behind the bizarre, threatening letter which forced some schools in the South Okanagan to go into lock down last week, RCMP and school district officials will try to calm concerned parents on Sunday. A stack of 30 copies of the letter threatening to harm students was...
School doors not completely closed as teachers walk the picket line
PENTICTON - Schools have not completely shut down, despite the wall of teachers picketing the front lines. Teachers and administrators are not trying to prevent students from entering the schools at all; students needing to clean out their lockers, if they haven’t already done so, can come by their school and collect their things. Administrators...