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Autistic son robbed of support at school
Our autistic son Daniel is in the special needs BASES program in Grade 8 at Panorama Ridge Secondary in Surrey.
Teachers worrying about next year
With seven weeks to go in the school year, teachers and students are working hard to complete another successful year of learning and look forward to the many year-end activities that are on the horizon.
Special support
AS the provincial election slopes towards its final week, some social issues slipped into the campaign between the managed photo ops in hard hats.
DTA wants to put an end to public education cuts
Re: Fewer kids put strain on budget, Murphy's Law, April 17
Board chops rural bus service
The Delta school board approved a series of budget cuts Tuesday, including elimination of the bussing program for most students.
Trustees cut bus service to Delta's rural students
The Delta school board approved a series of budget cuts Tuesday, including elimination of the bussing program for most students.
Candidates go back to school
Public education was the theme for Delta South's three provincial election candidates who squared off for the third time on Thursday night.
Trustees get earful over budget
Parents, teachers and students attending the Delta school board's budget consultation meeting Tuesday night in Ladner made it clear they don't feel deep spending cuts are fair.
School trustees get earful over proposed budget cuts
Parents, teachers and students attending the Delta school board's budget consultation meeting Tuesday night in Ladner made it clear they don't feel deep spending cuts are fair.
Delta school trustees get earful over proposed budget cuts
Parents, teachers and students attending the Delta school board's budget consultation meeting Tuesday night in Ladner made it clear they don't feel deep spending cuts are fair.
'There's a human cost' to cuts - Osborne
A "lost opportunity" is how the New Westminster Teachers' Union president describes a recent board of education meeting where, he says, trustees spent too much time talking about learning supplies and not enough on the impact cutting about 20 teaching positions will have on education.
Bus program faces axe due to deficit
The Delta school board is considering deep cuts to balance a projected $3.46million budget deficit.
Big deficit facing school board
The Delta school board is considering deep cuts to balance a projected $3.46 million budget deficit.
Three Mission bursaries added for arts & more
Grade 12 students who are residents of Mission now have three more opportunities to obtain a post-secondary bursary, the Mission Community Foundation announced last month.
Parents are concerned for vulnerable city students
About 50 concerned parents, union members and educators attended the board of education's budget meeting Tuesday to hear how the district's chronic deficit situation will impact jobs and classrooms.
Education event for parents on
As the mother of a special needs student, Wendy Harris knows what it's like to have to advocate for a child in the public education system.
District looks at laying off 70 employees
The New Westminster school district continues to sink deeper into a financial hole announcing Tuesday it will likely have to cut about 70 positions across the district to reduce its deficit.
First-ever special education parent network day will be held in New West
The New Westminster District Parent Advisory Council and the B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils have come together to host the first-ever Special Education Parent Network Day in B.C. next month.
School board facing tough decisions
The school board will have some tough decisions to make in its upcoming operating budget. The district's draft budget is currently being finalized, but a major item the school board has already been saying will be a difficult issue is the transportation budget. The district a few weeks ago held a couple of "brainstorming" public meetings to discuss how to deal with a reduction of 47 per cent, or $728,000, in transportation funding.
