QUILCHENA PARENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE (PAC)
INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS PAC VOLUNTEER COMMITTEES
PAC VSB Budget and Advocating For Our Schools
Money announced by the province
on December 7 , 2005, see
http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2005EDU0108-001151-Attachment1.pdf
Quilchena is to receive $17,925, see
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/k12funding/funding/05-06/onetime/sd39.pdf
The money is to be spent after consultations with the "broader parent community
and staff," according to a letter from the Minister, see
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/newproposals/archives/pdf/2005-06%20Spending%20Plan%20letter%201.pdf
Parents/staff/admin are to develop a spending plan, showing learning objectives
to be met, by *January 10, 2006* according to another letter from the Minister
, see
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/newproposals/archives/pdf/MOE%20Ltr%2005dec09.pdf
Send your comments, ideas,
or concerns to Q PAC care of [email protected]
The Ministry of Education has
just released $150m in a one time only grant to PACs across the province
- April 2005.
2005/2006 School Board Budget
- Community Input is Invited
The Vancouver School Board is seeking input from the general public/community
with respect to the budget priorities for the 2005/2006 school year. The
Board of School Trustees values the opinion of the general public/community
and invites you to take the opportunity to make your views known so that
a budget can be developed that takes into consideration the input received.
Trustees will be receiving delegations regarding the 2005/2006 Budget
on Tuesday, February 22nd, at 7:00 pm in the Gymnasium of Mount Pleasant
Elementary School (and Thursday, February 24th, in the Board Room of the
Education Centre, at 1580 West Broadway, if second meeting is required.
Please check the Board's website at www.vsb.bc.ca for up-to-date information.)
Groups or individuals who wish to speak should register with the Business
Administration Coordinator at 604-713-5283, no later than Monday, February
21st.
In order to facilitate sufficient time for Trustees' discussions,
written input into the budget priorities is requested by mail, fax or
e-mail by Friday, February 25th.
All submissions to the Board are considered to be public documents.
The Board, therefore, reserves the right to make any submissions available
to the public.
Vancouver School Board
Attn: Business Administration Coordinator 1580 West Broadway Vancouver,
B.C.
V6J 5K8
Fax: 713-5049
E-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Remarks delivered to the VSB re the budget
on Feb 22, 2005 by Q PAC Chair John M.
ADVOCATING
FOR MORE EDUCATION FUNDING
What is this about?
By now you may have received a mail drop piece from the provincial
government entitled "Your Surplus, Your Priorities: Building BC Together".
This brochure asks for public opinion on priorities for spending BC’s
surplus in the next one to two years. Among a number of priorities suggested
is "K-12 Education". The PAC Executive would like
to use this mail drop piece as a follow up to our early November meeting with
Colin Hansen, the MLA for Vancouver-Quilchena.
What can you do?
We are asking parents to:
1. Fill out the form, marking "K-12 Education
as "very important".
2. Return it to the school by December 8th,
2004.
The PAC Executive will endeavour to deliver them to the provincial
government.
We hope to deliver a very powerful message on the importance
of adequate funding for public education.
For those who have not received the brochure, you can find it
on the internet at the following link: http://www.gov.bc.ca/bcgov/content/docs/@2NO32_0YQtuW/back.pdf
You can print this out, complete it and return it to the school.
Thank you very much!
September 2004
Provincial Budget
time is coming up soon, and the premier is travelling throughout the
province listening to voters' wishes for the current provincial budget
surplus. At Quilchena we have a Wish List of items our staff have identified
as important for providing quality education in our classrooms. Our
Wish List totals is large! Other schools are in similar positions. This
is a good time to write to your MLA or the Premier to voice your views
on the needs in public education.
John Ralston Saul spoke at
Magee Secondary, September 2004. He highlighted Canada's long history
of support for a universal, accessible public education system. His entertaining
and well crafted talk earned a prolonged standing ovation. A live webcast
of his talk is available on Working TV at the link below.
John Ralston Saul
Webcast
VSB Budget and Advocating
For Our Schools 2003-4
The Quilchena PAC Chair
and others have been involved in meetings due to concern about the VSB Budget
cutbacks this year.
VSB - Advocating for
our schools - http://www.vsb.bc.ca/board/Advocating/default.htm
VSB Vancouver
Public Schools Foundation - http://www.vpsf.bc.ca/default.htm
Charter for Public Education - http://www.charter.publiced.ca
http://www.eracbc.ca
The Educational Resource Acquisition Consortium (ERAC) is an association
of BC public school districts and groups working together on software and
video resource acquisition to make the process more efficient and leverage
lower prices through bulk purchases.
Also see PAC Library Support
Also see RELATED WEB
SITES
including parent founded
organisation:
Vancouver SOS - Save
our Schools
http://www.vancouversos.ca/
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