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EDUCATION
School Board Election Looms, Public Yawns.
Submitted by Citadel Scchools on 10.6.08 at 6:48am.
The school board elections are a short two weeks away. In Halifax, the new, smaller Board means fewer seats, but the last few years of controversy seems to mean more interest and more candidates. Election signs and pamphlets abound.
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Learning Is A Team Sport...
Submitted by Machlanations on 09.29.08 at 8:50am.
I've been thinking a lot lately about how learning is changing (has changed?), influenced by paradigm shifts away from books and content towards the Internet, connections, and learning communities.
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Saint Mary’s Elementary: the message
Submitted by Citadel Schools on 09.29.08 at 6:46am.
At a meeting this past Monday the review committee created a strategy for spreading the Saint Mary’s message. In order to get the public’s attention and support in opposing closure we decided we needed to highlight certain points.
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Canadians Alliance of Student Associations release on Liberal PSE plan
Submitted by Keith Torrie Today on 09.23.08 at 12:32pm.
The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations welcomes the pledge by the Liberal party of an estimated $25 billion to post-secondary education support.
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We've Been Told….
Submitted by Citadel Schools on 09.17.08 at 7:56am.
…and we couldn’t be happier!
After three months of toiling in dog-day obscurity the Saint Mary’s Study Committee finally got what it wanted: a bunch of open ears and minds into which to pour the results of its school closure response efforts and an expanded base of exhuberant, vocal and exceedin...
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Education matters
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 09.3.08 at 6:58am.
Education sure does matter and matters of education are on everyone’s mind at this time of year. Ours too.
First of all we have been assessing the new crop of students who are everywhere in evidence this last Welcome Week. [parking in Wolfville? forget it ]. Hot looking bunch from what we have s...
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Catastrophic Failure
Submitted by Top Banana on 03.10.08 at 9:27am.
School closings are a symptom and only part of the bigger problem with Nova Scotia’s education system.
Consultants advising the board on what to do about its facilities over the next 10 years say the cost of constructing and renovating schools could be $300 million. The physical infrastructure...
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Why Elect the Board?
Submitted by Waye on 11.22.07 at 6:42pm.
"I agree with the parent who presented to you yesterday night, electing the Board does not work. We have had about two decades of experiment with elected Boards, and the results are poor. As Canadians we don’t elect sheriffs, judges, or the water commissioners, nor should we elect a school board....
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Confessions of an Unmotivated Undergrad
Submitted by Corey Mombourquette on 06.28.07 at 2:30pm.
As I walked down the hallways of St. Mary's University campus today, I couldn't help but wonder why I still attend classes. The easy answer would be my growing debt - to date, I have racked up roughly $35,000 in student loans and counting. So the only options I have are to stay in school and comp...
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Report on Public Meeting with HRSBs Carole Olsen
Submitted by Waye Mason on 06.20.07 at 5:24pm.
I arrived at about 15 minutes past seven, and given the nature of these things, I don’t think it had started on time and I had not missed much.
The process itself may be quite good, but like any public process, we will only get out of it what we put into it!
The Presentation:
Her pr...
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Is it appropriate to have volunteers doing essential services in the schools?
Submitted by Brenda MacDonald on 04.19.07 at 2:59pm.
It’s Volunteer Week. All week I’ve been noticing letters in the newspaper and listings for appreciation events…and I wanted to add my voice and thank all of the dedicated volunteers who work with me in our local elementary school library.
Out here in Cole Harbour, unofficially considered the o...
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School Supplementary Funding Proposal Removes Protection, Choice
Submitted by Waye Mason on 03.20.07 at 10:23am.
BACKGROUND
There is a proposal to change Supplementary Funding that will be presented to HRM Committee of the Whole on Tuesday night (MARCH 20).
There are many areas of concern with the current proposal, but simply put, Supplementary Funding was intended to provide funds to enhance edu...
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Meeting to establish a Citadel District School Association
When - Thursday, February 8, at 7pm-9pm
Where – the Atlantic Room, Civic Centre, Halifax Forum Complex. Enter through Halifax Forum doors (Windsor and Almon) walk right around the concorse of the main rink to the end, follow the signs.
Who - Representatives from each f...
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We still need to fix education.
Submitted by Waye Mason on 12.21.06 at 6:38pm.
While dismissing the elected members of the Halifax Regional School Board (HRSB), was a dramatic, decisive and above all needed step, is just the first step in what hopefully will become full reform of public school governance in Halifax.
It has been only ten short weeks since the parents and...
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We are here to stop the construction of a new school
Submitted by Waye Mason on 11.30.06 at 11:06am.
I recently had the joy of attending another meeting of the Halifax Regional School Board (HRSB).
In what I recognize from the Save Beaufort days, the HRSB kindly moved the motion 95% of the people here are here to see to the very end of the agenda, so that we have to sit through all the “order...
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Thursday, September 28, is Raise-a-Reader Day
Submitted by Bren on 09.20.06 at 11:01am.
I moan and groan about my workload as volunteer library coordinator at my children’s elementary school.
I don’t really know why.
I guess I feel it’s logical to complain about a job that sucks up most of my spare time…and for which I don’t get paid. My house is a mess, I need a haircut, and...
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Drafted into Volunteering
Submitted by Bren on 09.14.06 at 11:38am.
It’s that time again.
School is starting - an event that has, in recent years, taken on a whole new meaning for parents.
At one time the beginning of the school year meant blissful peace (for the parents of older children) and bittersweet sadness (for the parents of wee primary kids). It me...
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