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HELSTON: Victory, or prolonging the inevitable? Here’s hoping school officials use the next year wisely
News this week that two elementary schools in the North Okanagan are being spared for…
HELSTON: Why education is one of the best investments our government can make
I hate seeing our schools get nickel and dimed, particularly because injecting cash into education…
Board members to decide next week on fate of North Okanagan-Shuswap schools
NORTH OKANAGAN – Communities are expected to learn the fate of schools in Armstrong, Salmon…
North Okanagan-Shuswap budget cuts ‘gut-wrenching’
NORTH OKANAGAN - Literacy programs, grief counselling and class sizes are all taking a hit next year in what the North Okanagan-Shuswap school board chair calls some ‘gut-wrenching’ decisions to balance next year’s budget. The school board approved two pages of reductions totalling $1.7 million at its board meeting Tuesday, May 12. "We have tried...
Vernon School District will use reserves to bridge budget shortfall
VERNON - The Vernon School District will dip into its reserves to cover next year's budget shortfall, but it's already worried about what to do the year after that. Once again, School District 22 is facing a budget deficit, this time in the amount of $950,000 due to cost pressures and a $400,000 cut in...
Countdown to possible Shuswap school closure continues
NORTH OKANAGAN – The North Okanagan-Shuswap School Board has begun a process that would allow…
School closures recommended in the North Okanagan-Shuswap district
NORTH OKANAGAN – A number of school closures are being eyed in the North Okanagan.…
Lavington gas leak forces school closures
LAVINGTON - Some Lavington schools are closed Friday due to a major natural gas leak on Highway 6. Superintendent of School District 22 Joe Rogers says JW Inglis and Charles Bloom Secondary schools will be shut down while Fortis B.C. completes repairs to the gas line. Lavington Elementary School remains open. Teachers and CUPE staff...
Former Vernon vice-principal punished for boosting student’s grades
VERNON - A former Vernon vice-principal has been reprimanded for boosting a student’s grades. The B.C. Teacher Regulation Branch is suspending former Vernon Secondary School vice-principal Tony Martin Dolinar’s teaching certificate for one month because he increased the grades “of a student whom he wished to favour” without the consent of the student’s teacher. Dolinar...
North Okanagan school district axes positions and prepares for the next tough decision
SALMON ARM - The North Okanagan school district is looking at closing schools and reducing the number of trustees on its board to settle ongoing financial challenges in the operating budget. Those ideas surfaced at a board meeting Tuesday as trustees passed a preliminary budget for the 2014/15 school year that would involve laying off teachers...