The major item on the Education Committee tonight was a recommendation from administration to create International Baccalaureate programming for the elementary panel at Glenwood and Margaret D. Bennie Public Schools. This would represent a pilot of elementary IB. We currently offer IB at the secondary level at Riverside and Leamington.

Happy New Year! Trustees received the Long-Term Accommodation Plan (LTAP) tonight which administration puts together annually.

We received a presentation about updates to the Education Development Charges. These are charged by municipalities on behalf of school boards which are acquiring sites for new builds usually as a result of an increase in enrolment often resulting from new residential developments. 

Tonight was our Inaugural Meeting of the new Board of Trustees!

The meeting agendas for November 2018 were fairly light due to the changing of the board as a result of the election. As such, I have collapsed both meetings into a single post.

My motion for Administration to bring a report forward about options to address hot schools was debated tonight.

EQAO results were presented at the October 2 Education Meeting.

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a restful summer vacation. My focus tonight was on the classroom. 

Tonight we had our last regular board meeting of the school year. Superintendent Lynn McLaughlin presented her final Special Education Plan before retirement this summer - congratulations!

Tonight we had the final Education and Operations & Finance meetings of the 2017/18 school year. At the top of the Education Committee agenda we presented the Scholarship and Bursary Awards to students entering post-secondary education in the fall.