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Legal case against school closure comes to abrupt end
KAMLOOPS - The Downtown and West End Residents’ Association is dropping out of a legal battle with the school district over the planned closure of Stuart Wood School. Chair Bruce Thomson says the decision was made official today, Friday, Feb. 6, because the cost is too prohibitive and the likelihood of getting any meaningful change...
Fight to save Stuart Wood goes legal
CONSULTATION PROCESS ‘DEEPLY FLAWED’ KAMLOOPS - A group upset with the planned closure of Stuart Wood School is hoping to make it a key election issue after a lawyer allegedly found several deficiencies in the way the district handled the decision. Bruce Thomson, the acting chair of the Downtown and West End Residents’ Association, says...
District looks to make Stuart Wood closure official
KAMLOOPS - The decision to close Stuart Wood School could become official this afternoon as the school board prepares for a special meeting to pass the official bylaw. The decision to present the bylaw at a special meeting comes on the heels of a letter sent to the district from the lawyer representing the Downtown...
Stuart Wood will close
KAMLOOPS - The clock is ticking on Stuart Wood Elementary School after the school district agreed unanimously to consolidate Beattie School of Arts students into one building and shutdown the downtown school by September 2016. The issue has been a hot button issue with the public since an enrolment report suggesting the closure was released in...
Future of Stuart Wood landmark could include TRU
KAMLOOPS - Thompson Rivers University is interested in the historic Stuart Wood Elementary School in downtown Kamloops. The City and university have signed an agreement to look at the possible future uses of the school, which is set to be turned back over to the city in September 2016 after students and staff are head...
Group continues fight to save Stuart Wood
KAMLOOPS - It may be too little too late but a group of concerned citizens are not giving up their fight to save their downtown school. Denis Walsh, the chair of the Downtown and West End Residents Association, admits they were a bit slow out of the gate but based on previous changes within the...
Stuart Wood decision left for another day
KAMLOOPS - The board asked several questions and the report was accepted but the decision on what exactly to do with Stuart Wood Elementary School will have to be dealt with at a later date. “No decisions have been made,” School District 73 Trustee Cara McKelvey says. “Some trustees asked questions around heritage status and...
Council faces off: Is Stuart Wood more important because it is downtown?
KAMLOOPS - More than an hour was spent discussing the merits of keeping Stuart Wood as an elementary school and whether the city should step in to provide ‘support’ to the school district in making the decision. “Where was this passion for John Tod last term?” Mayor Peter Milobar said, “Was it because it was...
Decision on Stuart Wood expected soon
KAMLOOPS - A report with recommendations on whether the school district should relocate students and shut down Stuart Wood Elementary School will be presented to trustees Monday. In November administration made several recommendations focused on realigning catchment areas to help ease enrolment pressures at some high schools. Following much of the realignment it was suggested...
Neighbours working together to have concerns heard
KAMLOOPS – A former city councillor along with a few other concerned citizens has created a group for downtown residents to voice their concerns. Denis Walsh helped create the Downtown and West End Residents' Association to represent the concerns of residents living downtown and on the west side of 1 Avenue. The objective of the...
Debate over Stuart Wood closure continues
KAMLOOPS — Tonight more voices will be heard on a current proposal to close down Stuart Wood School in downtown and realign several other schools to make room in a different building for those students. Many people have been lamenting the idea since the school district first made the proposal public in November. Many letters...
Closure of Stuart Wood building still on agenda
KAMLOOPS — The closure of Stuart Wood School and relocation of staff and students up the hill is still one of several boundary and enrolment changes under consideration by the school district. In November School District 73 released a report outlining several changes it was looking at over the next few years to help alleviate...
The future of our schools
SD73 LOOKS AT PORTABLES, EXPANSIONS AND CLOSURES KAMLOOPS – As the city continues to grow, school enrolment grows as well–at least in some neighbourhoods. This lopsided growth at city schools has the school district looking at options to better accommodate current and future students. A report from Kamloops-Thompson School District Assistant Superintendent Karl deBruijn looks...
Policy change meant to address homophobia concerns
KAMLOOPS - Nearly two years after teacher Don Wilson asked the school district to consider an anti-homophobic harassment policy the district appears ready to act, but not exactly what Wilson was looking for. The district is preparing to replace a section of the policy entitled ‘Race Relations’ with ‘Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights.’ The policy, while...
District bullying policy to get slight update
KAMLOOPS - Just over a year ago the teachers’ association began a push for an anti-homophobic harassment specific policy and this month the district will instead update the current bullying policy. The Kamloops-Thompson Teachers’ Association brought forward a request for a discrete anti-homophobic harassment policy last spring, with one teacher saying he felt administration had...