The Honourable Liz Sandals, Minister of Education, has declined to meet with Owen Sound City Council to discuss the Bluewater District School Board accommodation review.
In a letter received from Minister Sandals dated May 30 (see text below), she instead offers to meet with Mayor Boddy at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario Conference. This conference will occur in Windsor from August 14 to 17 – three weeks prior to the start of the school year.
On October 15, 2015, Owen Sound City Council wrote to Minister Sandals asking her to intervene with
This year marks the 8th Anniversary of the formation of the Grey Bruce Sustainability Network. The group's annual meeting is happening on Tuesday, June 7th at 3:30 with social, supper and guest speaker – Victoria Serda from Saugreen for the Environment, and anyone is welcome.
As with many organizations, GBSusNet took a few years to get its legs and clearly define the kind of work it needed to do to be "sustainable" as a not-for-profit social enterprise. With support from a range of corporate and community ...
Student leaders from both Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute (OSCVI) and West Hill Secondary School (WHSS) joined forces on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at the Bluewater Outdoor Education Centre (BOEC) near Wiarton for a Link Crew training event. Seventy students participated in team-building and training activities that will prepare them to welcome incoming grade 9 students to the newly combined secondary school in Owen Sound in September 2016.
"It was great to see students from both schools come together to work towards a common goal," says WHSS Link Crew coordinator Chris Ewing. A team of teachers from both schools along with staff at the BOEC led...
Grey Roots Museum and Archives is hosting a brand new event on Sunday, June 12 from noon to 5 PM. Saints & Sinners Taste of the Trail is a chance to taste great beer, wine and cider while enjoying delicious food and live entertainment in the Moreston Heritage Village. Thirteen members of the Saints & Sinners Trail are participating. Ticket prices - $20 in advance (includes five sample drink tickets), $10 for designated drivers, $25 at the door on June 12; $15 at the door for designated drivers.
The Saints & Sinners Trail is a map that brings together 17 beer, wine and cider producers from across Grey,
- Courtesy of People for Education, an independent charitable organization that conducts research, makes policy recommendations, and facilitates an extensive communications strategy to support public dialogue about public education.
In 1997, the provincial government developed a funding formula for education. Before 1997, kindergarten to grade 12 education was paid for through a combination of provincial funding and funding from local property taxes. When education was funded through local property taxes and school boards were able to decide on tax rates for education, boards with a "richer" tax base (e.g. larger urban centres) had much more money to spend on education than boards with a very small tax base.
One of the goals of the provincial funding formula was to make education funding more equitable across the
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