The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 1%, 2003 : All

"Save the equivalent of the

Rethink school rentals, MLA says BSSRUaESS

~ By JENNIFER LANG
- A SECOND meeting between
Skeena MLA Roger Harris and
‘ Coast Mountains School District
officials is imminent.

Harris said Friday he hoped to
meet with the schoo! board again
"this: week or early next. week to
continue discussions on a wide
range of issues — including school
~ district funding.

Harris. said the school district
still: needs to look at creative
ways of solving its budget pro-
blems. ..

we-nHe indicated the school. board ...

may want.to consider leasing out
schools that may compete for stu-
dents. "- .
> ‘The board's official position is
--that it won't lease or sell to a pri-
yate school for fear of losing more
. students. ..

Declining enrolment is’ partly .

to blame for a funding crunch
‘that’s forced trustees to close
schools and introduce a four-day

Report
returns

‘THE SCHOOL board has

decided to spend nearly

“$4,000 printing and dis-
.tributing copies of an an-

nual report that’s a fraction

of what the district used to -

spend.

Trustee Lorrie Gowen,

_ Offered to write, edit and
» design the annual report,

expected to be distributed

by late August 2004.

: The district plans. to
-produce 14,000 copies of
the report, the first in sev-. ”
eral years due to budget
constraints.

On Nov, 5 the board ap-
proved the printing cost of
“an estimated $2,932, plus . .

up to $1,000 in distribution — .
‘costs. oe
_- The district used to
spend as much as $40,000
producing an annual report.

BCTF
voting —
on dues

By JENNIFER LANG
B.C.’"8 TEACHERS have
ramped up their dispute |
with the education mini-
ster over ‘changes to the
body that governs their
profession.

Teachers are taking part
in a province-wide yote
asking them if they want
to withhold their annual
fees from the B.C. College
of Teachers,

Votes held by secret
baliot are supposed to
wrap up Nov. 20, the B.C.

- Teachers’ Federation says.

Nearly 300 teachers in -
the Coast Mountains
School District 82 have

_ not paid their annual $90 |
-fee to their regulatory body” -
in protest over Bil] Si.

_--?) They asked the school.
- district to refrain from

making automatic payroll
deductions that are norm-

_ ally collected from tea-
chers in October to pay
their college dues.

This school board is one
of 53 province wide that
have also sent a letter to

the education ministry in
support of the teachers’

position against Bill 51,
the Teaching Profession

“Amendment Act, which

“was passed last May,

- The BCTF says, the bill
“makes teaching the only
profession in B.C. not gay-
erned by an elected major-
ity of practitioners.

The present governing
council is comprised ..of.

: political appointees.

Francis Boucher, co-

_. chair of the Coast Moun-
--tain Teachers’ Federation,
‘said once dues are in ar-

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school week to cut costs. - ;
But on Noy. 5, school board

chair Peter King publicly affirmed

the fact that trustees are looking

at ways to open Mountainview —

Elementary, a.£3.5, million school
on the bench in Terrace. that’s: re-

mained closed since it was-com--.

pleted last year. °

“The board is. considéring it,”
King said, adding the trustees
never intended to close Mountain-
view permanently. -

“The trustees bowed to public

pressure not to open Mountain-
view and now they’re looking at it
again,” he said, -
A new independent school,
Mountain View Christian Acade-
my, has asked the board to con-
sider. selling the school outright -
an invitation the board has so far
resisted, : .

More recently, the Terrace

‘chapter of Canadian Parents: for

French have indicated they may
ask the board to consider turning

Mountainview Elementary into a’
~ school for. the local K-7: French

immersion program.

- President Darcie Annesley said
her group wants the board to start

the public ‘consultation process

. over. Mountainview now.

Phat way, a ‘decision can be:
-made by the end of February,

after the board - and the public -
debates. any proposals that are

submitted, including the detailed

one CPF: is preparing on French
immersion.

Trustees want a
snazzier web page

THE SCHOOL district wants to

put its best foot forward in cyber-.

space.

Trustees are moving ahead
with plans to update School Dis-
trict 82°s homepage - in part to
make it more. attractive to pro-.
spective foreign’ students,

““We'd like:to create a- more.

vibrant web. page,” trustee Diana
Penner said, calling the current
one (www.cmsd.bc.ca) uninterest-

ing. The district will now begin |

asking for proposals from schools
and the public.

The district's current home
page contains plenty of. useful in-

formation for. students and: parents,

including the latest edition. of
school board‘néws, district statis-

‘ties, links to other. websites, con-

tact telephone numbers-and email
addresses for trustees’ and district
administrative staff.

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. «considered not in good
"standing by the college.
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vote wits up, teachers.
could be waiting to leam if
they'll lose their jobs.
" “The vast majority of
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“fire - teachers,” © Coast
Mountains school board
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