EPSB School Closure Survey

The Edmonton Public School Board is taking a survey on school closures. It’s password protected, and we don’t know how the sample was chosen, but it is worthwhile for all of us to have a say. A closed survey seems to suggest there is a desire to control the response. Transparency would be better. Russ emailed

Bev Esslinger (Bev.Esslinger@epsb.ca), the board chair, to ask her to send me a password and to extend the deadline (which is January 23). You can do the same. The link for the survey is here:

http://viawebsurvey.epsb.net/vws/Surveys_ai1.cfm?a=1002&b=4047

Capilano Parent Advisory Council

George Rice, the school board trustee for our area, will be attending the Capilano Parent Advisory Council meeting on 28 January 2009. Russ will attend and will take the opportunity to get an update from Mr. Rice on the review status. We’ll post the outcomes here after the 28^th. Stay tuned, and feel free to attend.


http://www.epsb.ca/trustees/gtrustee.shtml
George.Rice@epsb.ca

Edmonton Examiner on School Closures

The Edmonton Examiner had a piece about school closures in the Dec 10 issue. Nancy Rempel wrote in the Community Matters section about the struggles in the Newton community. Check out the article at this link:

http://www.edmontonexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1340085