(originally posted at PoliticsRespun.org – see here) The recent controversy over the Vancouver School Board’s budget situation has been a bit of an interesting story to follow. Much like every other school board in the province, the VSB has been wrangling with a considerable problem: the costs of providing a high-quality public education continuously increase, [...]
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advanced education should be bracing for impacts – and getting ready to say no to budget cuts
The following appeared on the Stop BC Library Cuts website today, after an communiqué from the provincial government: On August 20, 2009 the Province of British Columbia announced that the provincial dollars to support public libraries would be $13,700,000, which is about 78% of previous years. While this represents a reduction, the libraries of BC [...]
envision education / get involved with the university community
“envision education” A community-led visioning workshop – creating a new vision for our university What is this event? “envision education” is a community-led visioning workshop that brings together members of the university community to develop a plan for our university. Community resistance to cutbacks, budget reductions, layoffs, and program elimination is met with two general [...]