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More Kelowna COVID-19 school exposures announced
In back to back emails, Central Okanagan Public Schools announced two more potential COVID-19 exposures…
B.C. teachers ask for class sizes to be reduced to 15
B.C. teachers are urging Premier John Horgan to reduce class sizes in some areas to…
11 Central Okanagan schools, one Vernon school currently with COVID-19 exposures
Kelowna Immaculata Regional High School is the latest on a growing list of Central Okanagan…
Despite surge in COVID-19 exposures, Central Okanagan schools are safe: Superintendent
Over the past two weeks there have been 11 schools run by the Central Okanagan…
COVID-19 case reported at Vernon elementary school
A positive case of COVID-19 has been confirmed at the Mission Hill Elementary School in…
Why Central Okanagan schools are getting hit hardest by COVID-19
There are 18 school districts in the Interior Health region but since the return to…
Three new COVID-19 exposures confirmed at Kelowna schools
Interior Health has confirmed three new COVID-19 exposures at Central Okanagan schools. A single exposure…
Three more cases of COVID-19 in Kelowna schools
Three people have tested positive for COVID-19 in three different elementary schools in Kelowna. The…
Another Kelowna high school reports case of COVID-19
A single case of COVID-19 has been reported at Okanagan Mission Secondary School in Kelowna.…
Kamloops-Thompson school district fighting kissing teacher reinstatement order
A Kamloops teacher who was fired in the aftermath of making a sexual advance on…
B.C. court rejects parents’ attempt to force masks on school children
Two Lower Mainland parents have lost in their effort to stop schools from re-opening without…
Kelowna students might learn from anti-maskers, but not what they intended
An anti-mask protest near two Kelowna schools yesterday could spark conversations among students about the…
RCMP investigating racist notes found near Vernon schools
Police are investigating to find whoever is responsible for distributing hundreds of racist notes near…
Vernon mayor ‘disheartened, deeply sorry’ racist notes found near schools
Hundreds of racist notes were found by parents scattered around several Vernon schools yesterday —…
Burnaby teacher chooses portrait drawing over lesson plans and gets licence suspension
A Burnaby teacher on call who was more inclined to draw portraits of his students…
Schools in B.C. set to re-open despite rising COVID-19 caseload
Schools will open as scheduled, despite B.C.’s COVID-19 caseload growing enough for the province’s top…
B.C. students to be back in classrooms Sept. 10 for orientation
B.C.'s education minister has offered parents further insight to what the beginning of this school…
B.C. teacher gets licence suspended for not following lockdown drill
For ignoring and ultimately deciding to teach through a lockdown drill two years ago, an…
Full-time in-class school to start Sept. 8 in B.C.
The provincial government announced today, July 29, that all students will return to school full-time…
B.C. teacher showed ‘age-inappropriate’ video to students, gets suspended
A Lower Mainland teacher who showed his Grade 6 students a video about the impact…
UPDATE: ‘FIND THE BOMB’ tag sparks evacuation at two Kamloops schools, nearby homes
Kamloops RCMP have allowed people back into their homes after evacuating the residences and two…
Dr. Henry sticking to school plans despite case of COVID-19 in Lower Mainland school
While there were only eight new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. in the last 24…
Kamloops school counsellor gets one day suspension for ‘suggestive and inappropriate’ messages to parents
A Kamloops school counsellor received a one-day teaching license suspension for sending “suggestive and inappropriate…
Vernon school buses won’t run when class resumes next week
Vernon students who do decide to return to school next week will be doing so…